60 Day Turnaround

What is it?

The 60 in 2 is the 60 Day Turnaround, nuts and bolts, broken down into two hours.  All it takes is a lot of focus, and 2 hours to take notes, and then commitment to make some changes.

Saturday May 30th from 9am to 11am at Bread Beckers.

The 60 Day Turnaround has produced some awesome results in helping those who are weight loss resistant, as well as those who need hormonal balance and health improvement.  The path to achieve these results is the same, it is a diet focused on healing hormonal function.  The results will help almost everyone.

With the summer coming, who could expect to be perfect on a diet that lets you eat nothing that turns to sugar?  I know, I know… very difficult.  But, what if we could get you fired up enough, just enough to get you to make wiser decisions all summer long.  Not perfect, but wiser.  Where does that leave you come September?

The next 60 Day Turnaround will begin September 29th (Tuesday), with meetings held every Tuesday night.  This is the way you get the WHOLE value of the 60 Day Turnaround.  The diet details are deep, the time spent on shopping excursions, understanding detoxification, getting deeper into new levels of knowledge, so that the rules fade away, and your understanding becomes the new rule.

Does GMO matter?  If it does, should you ever eat a corn chip at a Mexican restaurant again?  If you do, what then?  This is where you want to have knowledge to protect you.

60 in 2 is a new concept for me, well not totally new, I have done one day events in the past, but the whole point of the 60 Day Turnaround, was that after 40 days of education, people had more questions.  60 Days to kill the questions.  So how can we do a good job in 2 hours?  Come check it out, we hit the high points, we point you in a direction, and we turn you loose to be wiser in the summer.  Period.  No frills.

So if you want to come to the 60 in 2 on Saturday May 30th, at Bread Beckers, then click here to REGISTER.  (Free to HealthSprout Care Plan Patients, $12 early registration, $17 registration at the door)

Be well and Be blessed!  See you soon – Dr. E

This Wednesday night in office, we’ll have an OILS 101 class being led by Verity McCann with forward by Dr. Eric.  This is a great way to cap off an awesome day in office, yes, once again we are into a cool themed day… BEACH DAY!  The office will be decked out to feel like the beach.  Beach clothes, beach music, beach everything.   Come in and enjoy the beach!

We do these days, because we want to make it easy and inviting for new people to learn about who we are and what we do.  But the reality is that this week, the real focus is on the Oils workshop, which will help you understand the basic uses for oils.  As you know, I am not a fan of treating, but when you have to do something to treat, I think starting with dietary methods and external or internal application of essential oils makes a ton of sense.

I recall the scripture that drove me into healing revivals when I lost my eye sight –

Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. – James 5:14

I don’t think the oil was the healing property.  Just like I joke about Jesus touching people to heal them… as a chiropractor, I would love for the touch to have been him re-aligning the spine, but I doubt that was the case.  However, he did use touch in almost every situations (Centurion and Lazarus are a bit unique), making a profound statement about touching.

Likewise, though I don’t believe this passage from James is suggesting that you have to run out to find the correct oil… James is saying that you need to follow this process, and the process involves oils.  I think it is strong enough to say we should understand oils, more like a first century Christian might.  And that ays a lot about where we should be with oils relative to drugs.

Reminder – who among you aspires to be on more medications?  Who plans out a path to be drugged up?  Who among you is looking for ways to position yourselves in a world of symptoms?  Then why is the medication a good way for you to live?  You wouldn’t choose it on your own, you require sickness to put you on it, yet you know taking it would make you sick.  Do you not see the need for the things we offer?

A Nervous System that is functioning optimally.

Nutrition providing the opportunity for tissues to heal.

Oils and or herbs and other supplements that can relieve symptoms and assist in body function enough to provide freedom from debilitating conditions. Make it into the office this Wedesday night, and forward this Sprout to someone who needs to come get checked out (FREE that day)!

And don’t forget the 30th!  See you at 60 in 2!  (60 Day Turnaround in 2 hours, free to you!)

You can register as a guest for $12, Free if you are in in office care plan patient, or it will go up to $18 per person in another week!  – Register here – 60 In 2

That is all for now… Stay the course and spread the news!  Be well and Be blessed!! – Dr. E

For today’s post I am doing a partial re-print of Dr. Mercola’s recent article – I would love for you to go to their site and read the full article.  This is a battle that I take very seriously.   Keep your education high, the climate is changing constantly, here is the link to the full article –

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/04/21/boycott-gmos-roundup.aspx

By Ronnie Cummins

Since genetically engineered (GE) crops, foods, and animal drugs were brazenly forced onto the market in 1994 by Monsanto and the FDA, with neither pre-market safety testing nor labels required, consumers and small farmers worldwide have mobilized to ban, label, or boycott these controversial “Frankenfoods.”

With mounting scientific evidence¹ underlining the human health and environmental toxicity of GE foods, and growing alarm over the toxic pesticides such as Monsanto’s Roundup that invariably accompany genetically modified organisms (GMOs), currently 64 nations require mandatory labeling of GMOs.

Numerous states and regions in the European Union, and several dozen entire nations, including Switzerland, Australia, Austria, China, India, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, and Russia, have banned GMO crops altogether.²

In the European Union (EU), where mandatory labeling laws are in effect, little or no GMO crops or food are on the market (except for imported GMO animal feed). In addition to banning GMOs, a growing number of countries, including El Salvador and Sri Lanka, have begun to ban the use of Monsanto’s Roundup.

This  toxic herbicide is sprayed heavily on 84 percent of all GMO crops, and increasingly applied as a pre-harvest desiccant, or drying agent, on scores of other non-GMO crops including wheat, rice, beans, potatoes, barley, oats, flax, peas, lentils, and sugar cane.

Even in the US where 168 million acres of GE crops are under cultivation (including 90 percent or more of all corn, soy, cotton, canola, and sugar beets), survey after survey has shown that Americans, especially mothers and parents of small children, are either suspicious of, or alarmed by, unlabeled GMOs.

This is understandable given the toxic track records of the chemical companies pushing this technology (Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, Dupont, BASF, and Bayer), as well as the mounting scientific evidence that these controversial foods and crops—and the toxic herbicides and insecticides sprayed on them or laced into their cells—severely damage or kill birds, bees, butterflies, lab rats, farm animals, and humans.

Currently US regulatory agencies, in sharp contrast to Europe, rely on industry’s own indentured scientists to determine whether GMOs—and the toxic chemicals, pesticides, and fertilizers that accompany their use—are “safe” for human health, animals, the environment, and the climate.

Meanwhile mass media journalists and food industry representatives monotonously regurgitate Monsanto’s dangerous mantra: Genetically engineered foods and crops are just as safe as “conventional” foods and crops, and there is no “mainstream scientific evidence” that GMOs are dangerous.

Consumers Want Genetically Engineered Foods to Be Labeled

Polls consistently indicate that 90 percent of Americans want to know whether or not their food has been genetically engineered, even though massive lobbying and advertising by the GMO lobby has prevented labeling laws from passing at the federal level and in most US states.

The notable exceptions are mandatory GMO fish labels in Alaska (passed in 2005) and mandatory food labels in Vermont (passed in 2014). In addition nine counties in the US have banned the cultivation of GMOs.

Stimulating demands for GMO labeling or bans, the prestigious IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) of the World Health Organization published a report³ in March 2015 declaring that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (active agent glyphosate), sprayed heavily on 84 percent of all GMO crops (including soy, corn, cotton, canola, and sugar beets) is a “probable carcinogen.”

After reviewing 44 scientific studies, half of the IARC panel thought that that glyphosate should be classified as a Group 1 “known carcinogen,” with the other half opting for a Group 2 “probable carcinogen” rating.

Given the fact that new peer-reviewed studies damning glyphosate are being published nearly every week, the IARC may very well reclassify glyphosate as a “known carcinogen” in the near future.

Conscious Consumers Wield Enormous Power

While continuing to push for mandatory labeling, stringent safety-testing and outright bans on GMOs, glyphosate, and other toxic chemicals and animal drugs, consumers need to understand that their purchasing power in itself has major potential to marginalize or drive GMOs and pesticides out of the marketplace altogether.

In the US, consumer pressure has prompted the nation’s largest retailer of organic and natural foods, Whole Foods Market (WFM), to announce that all 40,000 or so food items in their stores will have to be labeled by 2018 if they contain GMOs. This labeling policy includes meat, eggs, dairy, and all deli or take-out items.

Again, although this policy will only affect the 40,000 or so food products sold in WFM stores, brands selling to Whole Foods will suffer a public relations disaster if they are forced to label their items in WFM as GMO-tainted, but then refuse to do so in other stores.

Many of the thousands of suppliers to Whole Foods are now racing to get GMOs out of their products so they won’t have to put the proverbial GMO “skull and crossbones” on their products in 2018.

Other natural food chains such as the Natural Grocer are following in Whole Foods’ footsteps, either banning or requiring mandatory labels on all GMO and GMO-derived foods.

On the restaurant front, consumer pressure has forced the highly profitable Chipotle restaurant chain to make a similar promise. Other grocery brands and restaurant chains (most of whom are watching their profits decrease, while WFM’s and Chipotle’s rise) will shortly be facing enormous pressures from their customers to do the same.

 

Remember to read the rest of this article, and to take sides in the fight for health!

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/04/21/boycott-gmos-roundup.aspx

Be well and Be blessed! – Dr. E

Essential oil that is… I am a skeptical chiropractor.  For some who think chiropractic is fringe, I am sure that sounds like an oxymoron of sorts.  But I like the scientific evidence that supports a hypothesis, at the very least a theoretical basis that makes sense.  If there is Biblical support that always assists me as well, and thus I am one who does like to dig for evidence before I accept.

This is one of the major reasons I always teach a somewhat cautious approach to electro-dermal screening that takes place in so many Naturopath offices.  ZYTO scans, Avatar, ELAST to name a few (a complete list can be found here – https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/13926/ ).  Basically, there is nothing published that supports their efficacy, but worse, there is no written theory.  So even though these machines can sometimes produce a result that seems to make sense, I am always VERY cautious about them, and though I have been tested haf a dozen times, I still don’t “trust” the results.

That being said, you now get that I am a skeptic.  But, I am an oil using, skeptic.  One that has been breathing a combination of eucalyptus, and lavender through an inhalation device for 13 years.  Spring is when it comes out, every year for that length of time.  And now suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of an oil revolution.  A few months ago, I told someone “yeah, I have seen this before, it will fade away in a few months, and nobody except the committed will care about oils”.  Well, I was wrong.  This truly is a revolution… and an exciting one as there is symptomatic relief available that people demand (I’ll circle back on this in a minute).

However, it requires a few boundaries before you go crazy.  I do look at reality through the eyes of others amazing experiences as well as limitations; and I tend to maintain an overly optimistic reality, so it works well for my hope for you and your health, and ultimately our results in our office reflect that hope, as do the results of those I consult with.  But for this focus, we have two main points that need to be discussed first.  The philosophy of health with which you approach life, and the limitation of matter that exists with oils, just like with other supplements or remedies.

First, the philosophy of health.  A large majority of you, believe that health comes from the outside in.  Now I want to stop, because you must understand that you have to believe ONE or the OTHER.  You either believe it is outside in, or you believe it is inside out.  Sure, you can say that it is a combination of both, but you still have to draw a line in the sand and stand on one side or the other when it comes down to your core.  Do you “NEED” something to come from the outside?  Or do you depend more heavily on what is happening on the inside?

I am an INSIDE OUT guy, through and through.  I will trust this body to work without anything added to it, more than I will ever trust the thing that we are bringing in to try to assist it.  I guess it comes down to Christ in the desert for me.  I believe that after 40 days of fasting, Christ was healthy still.  Not supernaturally healthy, just healthy.  He had nothing coming in, so for me, it is a sign of INSIDE OUT health.

Next – the limitation of matter.  I have a varicose vein in my leg, it is a bad one, and I have attempted to do many things to help it over the years, and it has simply worsened over time.  My father has the same, there is a genetic disposition here, and it is one that has been referenced over the years.  Even though I am a phenotype expression kind of guy when it comes to epi-genetics, I know that I am simply here because it is imprinted on my genes.  This is a limitation of matter.  The cells and tissues are not capable of infinite change, but rather infinite capacity for healing based on the healing organ… the brain, transcribing your DNA into healthy cells.  It just so happens that this is imprinted on the DNA being transcribed by my brain.

Now, back to the oil revolution.  I think everyone should have a host of oils in their midst.  The reasons are not because you are going to get miraculous healing, yes it might come, but I wouldn’t rest all of your hopes there.  Most testimonials for healing from an oil, or from a new nutritional product, or from a new light therapy, or from a new physical therapy… could have come from any one of those.  Meaning that the body needed a step towards health, not necessarily a specific step towards health.  Let me clarify.

I love the pursuit of health in all areas.  I like that there is a scientific reason why an oil could assist in an area, as well as the science behind nutrition.  I enjoy the areas where we have learned the “why” or “how” behind the result.  That being said, I also enjoy “faith” in these areas, and thus a combination of the two is where the hope comes from.  Now, if my body is very devoid of the molecules it needs to function normally, then bringing any of these molecules in will allow it an opportunity to improve.  However, as we move a body closer and closer to having everything it needs, the only way to further improve, is to provide specific molecules.  And actually, some of the molecules that were used to gain early results might need to be removed to further results.  This occurs when “health” products with ingredients that are less than clean or pure, are used.  The market is FLOODED with products like this.

For the above reason, I do not like the term essential when used with oils because it perhaps makes us think it is essential to the body, vs. considering it is the essence of a plant.

I do want to make this point very clear.  Every single time an oil is used in place of a drug, and the desired effects are attained, it is an awesome and clear step towards health, and away from illness.  Drugs do not heal, they suppress symptoms, and every single drug has a side effect.  So with my mission – “Changing the way the world perceives health, while showing honor and glory to God and my family”; it is a huge benefit to see somebody who would treat with a medication, move to using an oil, and gain the needed impact.

This laundry list on Dr. Mercola’s site for Oil Uses is a good place to start.  We will have somebody in our office on April 20th, helping you sift through the uses and possible assistance for you to be gained through oils.

Dr. Mercola – Oil Uses

Be well and be blessed! – Dr. E

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/03/26/fit-men-may-be-less-likely-to-develop-some-cancers-study-suggests/

Obesity Increases risk of cancer, likewise… fitness decreases risk

According to a study in JAMA Oncology from researchers at The University of Vermont, found a correlation between higher cardiorespiratory fitness, and lower incidence of cancer.  The cancers that were reviewed in this study were prostate, colorectal (colon is most prevalent in this category), and lung.

Before going any further, I want to point out that there are a significant number of studies that relate lung and colorectal cancers to lifestyle choices.  Less that do the same for prostate, but nonetheless, you should not be surprised by the results of this study.

The study points out that men with better CRF (cardiorespiratory fitness) who did develop these cancers, were less likely to die from the cancer as well.  Concluding that regular exercise is continuing to be supported as very important to cardiovascular health, which continues to be shown as important for overall health, or as I would say in this case, immune health.

“This is important because more and more data is coming out that regular exercise is important to prevent cancer,” said Dr. Dale Shepard, an oncologist at Cleveland Clinic who did not take part in the study.

Since previous research has found sedentary lifestyles increase the risk of cancer, Shepard emphasized the importance of good heart health and recommended eating a heart-healthy diet, getting regular exercise, and maintaining a normal weight to decrease cancer risk.

“What that means is if you have a job where you sit all day long, we’re finding that even if you exercise for an hour or so afterward, you still have risk,” Shepard said. “So really, you have to think about both things – being active but not being inactive.”

Tying the sedentary lifestyle back in to the risk, is a huge step for Dr. Shepard.  He correctly refers to prior research that shows that when calculating risk, you don’t just limit the risk because of the exercise, you still increase the risk because of the 8 hours of sitting prior to that.  My response for you is not to quit your job, though it might make sense anyways.  But to find ways to increase your activity in your job.

I am a huge fan of the stand up desk.  This is a great option with great reviews to get it started –

be sure to consider your ergonomics, height of the monitor, and the keyboard.  In addition, make regular changes from your desk to some other movement.  Research shows that moving more often, makes you more productive than if you stay put in an attempt to be more productive.

I Don’t Have Time to Exercise

The number one reason individuals stop pursuing improvement in CRF through exercise, is time.  Well, you don’t have that excuse with my workout recommendations.  From 5-25 minutes is all you need, 4-5 times a week, and you will become fit.  Extremely fit if you escalate your intensity over time.  Just review these WORKOUT OF THE WEEK options, and jump in.

Actually, if you are a runner (and I mean this in the most offensive way possible), and have forsaken all other fitness modalities, then you need to do this too.  You should read the truth about endurance exercise first from Dr. Mercola, then consider fixing the long endurance issue with some short boughts.  For those of you who are not runners, but you fall into the classification of people “who like to run”, then that means you still do more than just run for fitness.  Good job.

Oh, the same goes for you cyclists.  I have never watched the winners of the Tour De France spraying champagne all over the podium and thought, “Boy they have an incredible physique”.  But I have surely thought “look at the ridiculous lack of proportion from their thighs to their bi’s”.  Lean muscle mass has also been implicated in longevity.  Mark’s Daily Apple summed that up pretty well in this article – Lean Muscle

So the long and short of it – you will reduce your cancer risk if you improve CRF.  You can do it better in an average of 10 minutes a day than an hour.  And you better get up from that desk you are sitting at.

Be well and Be blessed – Dr. E

Its time to start thinking about your vegetable garden.  Or in my case, time to get my pumps fully operational, my grow beds leak proof, and my tower garden loaded.  I am a believer in producing your own vegetables, for the purpose of cleanliness, as well as for the purpose of increased nutrient density.

My regular readers know that I love to grow my own vegetables from both my tower garden, as well as from my aquaponics garden.  The tower garden is one that you can have to, just click the link below and order one today.  You don’t have to be a green thumb, just have about an hour to set it up, and you are good.  Seeds go straight in, no need to start them off.

TOWER GARDEN

But, what about this aquaponics thing.  You might have seen it in action if you have been to Epcot and done the Living with the land tour.  Towards the end, the tour boat goes outside, and as it is heading out, you pass an aquarium full of fish on the left, with plants in rows above.  The water and nutrient is derived entirely from the water that the fish swim in.  Water = water… and well… poop = nutrient.  Fish poop, which isn’t quite so bad sounding, well not to me anyways.

The waste of the fish provide the perfect nutrition for the plants growing in the beds.  When I first saw this at Epcot years ago, I thought it was cool, but didn’t think “I gotta get me one of these!” (in the voice of Flyn Rider from Rapunzel).   Instead, there was no thought, until a couple years later when one of my interns just happened to be well versed in the aquaponics world.  Cool stuff this aquaponics.  He had helped many set up home gardens, so it was only natural that I would do the same.

A pond with 300 gallons of water, and about 40 fish from a 10″ koi down to a 1″ minnow (yes, if you followed my Great Blue Heron saga in the fall, I think I only lost a few fish), is all it takes to produce a significant volume of food.  All you need is the sunlight.  as the season progresses, I will post some video and pictures of this years setup.  But for now, the key is to understand the process in case you want to pursue this.

Water is pumped from the pond into a watertight grow bed that is actualy a concrete based design stamped to look like stone from the outside, and it is actually nothing but stone on the inside.  Pea gravel to be exact.   This holds the roots tightly when the plants grow.  There is no need for soil, because, once again, all nutrition comes from the pond.  The water fills my upper grow bed on a timer system, to the point of flooding the bed, then drains to the lower bed.  where there is a constant flow of water back to the pond.  The water has now been filtered clean leaving all of the waste/nutrient in the beds, and returning clean water to the pond.

Interesting I hope.  However, if you want to try to grow an abundance of food without this kind of effort, try the tower garden.  The $500 tower garden will pay for itself in one season if you maintain it, and be more than worth it if you move it inside to a protected well lit area through the winter.  I run it from April til November outside, next to my kitchen.  Harvesting a tower garden is more of an exercise in restraint than anything.  Prune your food versus pick a bunch, and it will come back over and over again.  The mechanism is similar to my garden, but the nutrient is added.  Organic vitamins and minerals into the water, which is pumped to the top of the garden, and cascades down moistening the roots and providing all the nutrients needed.

I enjoy the idea of being completely self sustaining, though it won’t happen yet.  I have taken a decent chunk of the food needs into my own hands with these two gardening methods.  I hope you will dig into your own gardening this year.
Be well and Be blessed! – Dr Eric