This is Dr. Rob with this week’s health blog. There’s a very powerful concept we’re going to go over today. There are certain things you can do that can increase your life expectancy and decrease all diseases across the board, especially the major diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and stroke.
Studies done on lab rats all the way up to primates show that decreasing the calorie intake by up to 30% will increase your life expectancy and decrease diseases across the board.
What does that mean to us here? If you find the foods that are low in calorie but high in nutrition, not only are you going to lose weight, but you’re going to live longer, feel better, and have less disease!
It’s a powerful concept that we are going to be discussing in more detail at our Nutrition Workshop that we will have in early June.
If you have any questions regarding this topic don’t hesitate in contacting us at Bates Chiropractic at (310) 545-4188 or via our website: www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com
Don’t forget to stay regular with your adjustments, because you need a great nerve supply in order to build a new body.
Maintain Your Spine
This week I’d like to talk about a concern of mine for others. A statistic came out stating that about 80-90% of all Americans will have a serious bout of back pain sometime in their life. It wouldn’t be the case if people learned how to maintain their spine.
Think about it. How many people maintain their spine? How many people actually know how to maintain their spine? Were you taught how to? No, because we weren’t taught that way.
We’re taught how to take care of our teeth. We know we have to brush and floss regularly, eat right, and get regular check-ups with a dentist, but we aren’t taught how to take care of our spine.
It’s a big concern of mine. I had a lady come in yesterday. Her first visit was in 2006, she had a serious bout of back pain; I adjusted her and her back pain went away. But, people don’t realize that if you don’t maintain your spine, it can create problems. One thing that can happen is that your spine can form a situation called Degenerative Disc Disease; most of the time is a silent process.
When you look at the neck, there should be a nice arc. But if you look at the patient who came in 2006, you can see she had a reverse forward posture. The posture resulted in decreased discs and a big bone spur in her neck. We went ahead and adjusted her, she felt fine after one adjustment, so she thought she was fixed. We talked about how to correct and maintain her spine, but the problem was that she thought that if she felt okay, she was okay. That’s the way we were taught to take care of our health and this concerns me.
She came back just yesterday, 5 years later, she had back pain again. We took another picture of the neck, and you can see that the area where she had the bone spur before is almost fused together and that there are other bones that are starting to do the same thing. She was completely shocked; she couldn’t understand. She hadn’t experienced pain since the last time she had come in.
“How can that be?” she asked. “Because,” I said, “if you don’t maintain your spine, it will degenerate.”
If you don’t maintain your spine, it will go down hill. That’s what we do here at Bates Chiropractic, we correct and maintain the spine. You want to maintain your spine and not your problems. Unfortunately, a lot of people only manage their problems. So, the key to it is really maintenance.
If you want to learn more about maintaining your spine and that of your family, you can contact us at Bates Chiropractic at (310)545-4188 or online at www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com
When The Cure is Worse Than The Cause
This is Dr. Rob with your weekly health blog. This week I’m concerned with an article I recently read. My concern is that a lot of times we do certain types of treatments on our bodies where the cure is actually worse than the cause. An article just came out in the New England Journal of Medicine stating “super-bugs” are being created due to an over-utilization of antibiotics. We’re using antibiotics for viral infections when they’re really designed for bacterial infections. What happens is when you take an antibiotic, most the bacteria die except for maybe a few, and those few will adapt over the course of weeks, months, and even years. Their offspring then become resistant to that antibiotic, so now when you go to take the antibiotic, it won’t work.
It forces our technology to try to keep up with the super-bugs, but what they’re finding is that it takes seven to ten years to develop a new antibiotic where it only takes a few months for super-bugs to multiply. We’re being faced on relying on our bodies to fight off these bugs where the antibiotics fail to work. We have to focus on building health from the inside out. We all know we have to eat right and exercise, but we also need a good nerve supply.
Why? Because the nerve system controls and coordinates the immune system.
When the body has interferences from subluxations, the immune system won’t work as well. So, it’s very important to get regular spinal checkups-even if you don’t have any pain- to make sure your body’s working well from the inside out.
The Placebo Effect
This is Dr. Rob Bates again. The last several weeks we’ve talked about the different stresses on the body, the physical stresses, the chemical stresses, and the mental stresses, and when the body can’t adapt to such stresses, it will break down. The innate intelligence of your body can’t adapt to the environment and you start having these diseased states.
This week we’re going to talk about a very interesting subject: the placebo effect.
If you get a chance, take a look at the book “The Biology of Belief” by Bruce Lipton, Ph. D. He’s a medical scientist who has taught at med schools and does a lot of research in this area. Basically what one part of this book is talking about is the placebo effect.
Placebo effects occur when you have a study where you give a sugar pill to some people in the study without their knowledge while giving another set of people the drug they want tested and positive effects ensue. In other words, it’s just coming from their minds.
They did a study, in The New England Journal of Medicine, on arthritic knees. One group had actual knee surgery performed on them, while another group had debris flushed out of the joint that may have been causing inflammation to the knee, while the third had a mock surgery, a placebo surgery, where they made the incision and talked through an actual surgery but didn’t do anything to the knee. The three groups went through their normal rehabilitation, and what they found, interestingly enough, was that there was no change, no difference, in the outcome of all three of those groups; meaning, some of the people who actually had the placebo surgery were able to be active again. One man who had to use a cane before the study was able to go out and play basketball after the surgery!
The power of the mind!
Also, they did another study with the 6 main anti-depressants. They measured them up against the placebo, a sugar pill, and in all those cases, the placebo effect beat the anti-depressants!
Do you really need the anti-depressants or just the placebo effect?
What Dr. Bruce Lipton goes on to say is that our society is so ingrained with the notion that if you take this pill, it will help you. There is billions of dollars worth of marketing right now from the pharmaceutical companies that will educate and ingrain into you, your kids, and your grandkids to take these drugs because it will heal you. In other words, we have a whole society that believes a drug will cure them.
He wraps up this section by saying that some of the pharmaceutical companies are trying to find out which people are more susceptible to the placebo effect, because they don’t want those people to affect their studies since it fouls up the possibility of their drugs to be pushed. So, they want to exclude the competition which is a placebo sugar pill.
Maybe what we need to do is spend all these billions of dollars researching why that placebo effect actually happens in the body, why the belief process actually happens. Then we can just pop out the miracle sugar pills instead.
Is Exercise Enough For A Healthy Spine?
This morning I got up early, worked out, and even did some yoga. I also got my back checked for subluxations by a fellow chiropractor. Why did I do that? Even thought I worked out, did yoga, and in good shape, I need to get my spine checked. I have yoga instructors that have been doing yoga for years that come in here, pilates instructors that are in great shape as well. They can have spines that move well, but there can be a segment that’s not moving right, and it could be out of alignment or subluxated. So for that reason, when it’s subluxated, the bone loses its position and it can choke on that nerve. If you look at Grey’s anatomy, it states that the brain and spinal chord control and coordinate all functions and structures of the body, just not some bad muscles, but all structures and functions, meaning your heart, your kidneys, your lungs, your liver, your immune system, your digestive system, all systems of the body.
So, if you have a subluxation it can interfere with the function of your body. Which means it interferes with your life and your health. For that reason, everyone should get their spine checked, for that reason I went and got my spine checked even though I worked out and did yoga this morning.
Which brings to mind another thing, this weekend at the Art Festival in Hermosa Beach, I’m going to have a booth down there. I will be there Saturday, Sunday, and Monday from 12-6. I want to invite all my patients down. All of my patients that come down will receive a free spinal check up and adjustment. That’s right, patients, it’s on me. All I ask in return is that you bring a guest down, so I could meet them. Then I’ll perform a free spinal examination on any guest that you bring down. That’s the deal! Your guest will get checked for subluxations; you might save a life!
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