One of the most common questions I get asked is what supplements should I be taking for this condition? I get asked this question daily and most of the time my answer is the same no matter what the condition. When a certain part of the body is having problems due to adaptations to the stresses we put it under does it make sense to treat that part of the body and hope that it rectifies the situation or is the solution to strengthen the body. There are 4 main supplements I recommend to every patient, they are not for your heart, although they are good for your heart. They are not for your joints, although they are good for your joints. They are not for you_______, although they are good for your _______, you fill in the blank. They are the basic things that are not in our diet that if we were to take would decrease the amount of stress that the body is under thus soothing the effected organs that are causing whatever symptoms that are ailing the patient.
First is fish oil. I always have patients ask is there anything more that I could be taking to help with _____, my first response is always, well, are you taking your fish oil. More times than not they are not taking it. Fish oil is the most important supplement you can take, my children have taken it every day of their life. If you Google “benefits of fish oil” it will be so broad spectrum you will swear it is a magic pill. It helps with blood pressure, pain, inflammation, depression, joints, arthritis and the list goes on and on. The second thing about fish oil is that not all fish oils are the same. The big thing right now with the health gurus is the krill oil. Krill are little shrimp like creatures that eat phytoplankton; the phytoplankton is where all the good stuff comes from. I will not debate with the gurus as to whether or not fish oil is as good as krill oil but I will say that I have tried krill oil and did not notice a difference between that and a high quality fish oil. The krill oil is also much more expensive. The key to fish oil is making sure that you get the highest quality. I like to compare fish oil to boots. I love to hike up in the mountains and one of the most important pieces of equipment is your boots. High quality boots save your feet and ankles and allow you to hike farther and harder than say walmart boots. Fish oil is the same way; never buy your fish oil from a big chain like that. Fish oil is very delicate oil it must be processed correctly and it must be packaged and shipped correctly, skipping any of these steps is a big mistake. Also many of the cheaper fish oils are processed from farm raised fish that have not been able to eat the krill so they don’t have the good things in them. Moral of the story buy a high quality fish oil with a good reputation. Carlson’s is a good brand that can be found in health food stores and there are other great brands that only sell through doctors.
Second on the list are greens. At our clinic we take nanogreens it is a powder you put in water that has 10 servings of vegetables in it and has the right ones. What are the right ones? The two most important ones are chlorella and spirulina; they are sea veggies and are both among the true super foods on our planet. I don’t care which greens you take just make sure it is a good one and make sure it has those two super foods.
Third Magnesium. Magnesium is involved as a precursor to over 300 enzymatic processes in the body and 90% of Americans are found to be magnesium deficient. The magnesium you take is kind of like the fish oil, you have to be very careful about which one you buy, but for totally different reasons. Most magnesium that you will find will be in a synthetic form that your body can not use and will just lead to loose bowls. They best magnesium is a citrate. One again you can find it thru a good health food store or through a good nutritionally minded doctor.
Forth, is probiotics. Hippocrates said that disease begins in the gut. Likewise health begins in the gut. Proper gastrointestinal health is essential to every function and system in the body. Probiotic are good bacteria that aid in digestion, and protect the GI tract from foreign invaders and infections.
Now you know some of the most basic things about nutrition so the next time you run into someone who is having a problem with_____. Tell them not to worry about ______, and to strengthen their body thru proper nutrition, a healthy spine and nervous system, and a great attitude.
Hope you enjoyed this one, get healthy get happy and tell a friend
Dr T
What supplements should I take?
July 8th, 2009Amazing miracle Cure
June 24th, 2009Hydration
If I were to take water and have Dr. Oz talk about it on Oprah, telling about all its wonderful healing properties, we could sell it $40 for a months supply and it would be true. All the wonderful healthy disease fighting properties would be completely true and you could make a infomercial 24 hours long of all the people who’s health had improved thanks to this miracle. The problem is people are still looking for a miracle and water is free.
What does it mean to be dehydrated?
Being dehydrated does not mean that you do not have enough water in your belly it means that you do not have enough water in your cells. Your body is made of cells and the cells are made up of mostly water.
If you want to make a huge difference in your health try the two week challenge. It takes two weeks to properly hydrate all the cells in the body and one day to lose it. So for two weeks drink the proper amount of water and nothing else.
The proper amount of water is your body weight divided in half, converted to oz. So if you weight 200lbs, half of that would be 100lbs. Convert that to oz. Would mean you need to drink 100 oz a day. If you decide to cheat and have coffee or soda or tea that is ok you just need to make it up. To do this take the amount of the offending beverage, double it and add it to your water intake for the next two days.
You will love the changes your body will go thru when you properly hydrate yourself. It is one of the first steps to changing your health.
Get healthy get happy and tell a friend
Dr T
3 minuets a day to be in great shape
June 24th, 2009Burst
If I were to tell you that there is a supplement out there that was so amazing that it has been scientifically proven to reverse ageing, burn fat, build lean muscle, reverse arthritis, build bone density, heal sports injuries faster, treat multiple sclerosis, treat fibromyalgia, improve immune function, increase energy, decrease winkles, help skin tone, in short it has been proven to be the fountain of youth. You would either be lined up at the door or you wouldn’t believe it is true. I have some good news some bad news and then some more good news. The good news is that this supplement does exist the bad news is that it is illegal and the following good news is that you don’t need to buy it because your body produces it anyways.
Human Growth Hormone is the miracle supplement, it receives a lot of media attention from athletes who illegally take it to enhance their performance. Back to the good news, your body naturally produces hGh, my purpose in writing this article it to tell you how to increase the levels that your body produces.
Exercise. Wait, wait don’t run away this is going to be much easier than you think. Two of the most common reasons why people don’t exercise is that 1st they don’t have the time, I am right there with you, it isn’t just the time at the gym it is also the travel time the extra shower and the insecurities from working out next to people who are there 3 hours a day every day. The other common reason is that we lose our motivation. It is easy to get exited and start to exercise but then other priorities come up and steal our momentum. Burst training is the answer to both of these excuses. You can get in amazing shape and produce more growth hormone in three minuets a day of burst training than you can spending hours at the gym or from running 10 miles a day.
The keys to burst training are;
1st Target Heart Rate. Subtract your age from the number 220 and that is your maximum heart rate. So if you were 40 years old 220-40=180. 180 is your maximum heart rate. Target heart rate for burst training is 90% of your maximum. This is figured out by taking your( max hear rate – your resting heart rate) x .90 + your resting heart rate. It sounds more difficult than it is. If you were 40 years old and you had a resting heart rate of 70 beats per minuet. The equation would look like this (180-70).90 +70=169 so your target heart rate for burst training would be 169 beats per minuet. It doesn’t have to be right to that number every time but it should be within 10 bpm. Heart rate is the most important part of burst training, at least for our purposes of increasing the amount of hGh our body is producing.
2nd Warm up. Take a few minuets to warm up and get ready for the exercise. Maybe some light jogging in place or some ballistic stretching.
3rd Intervals. Intervals of what, what is the secret exercise you have been reading this whole article to find out. There is no secret exercise. The exercise is whatever you want to do to quickly get your heart rate to the target range. It is going to be different for everyone. Some people if you are in really good shape are going to need to do much more than others to get into that target range, for an older person maybe sitting in the chair with some 5 lbs weights will do the trick. If you are an elite athlete it may be 200 yard sprints. That is the beauty, is that it doesn’t matter.
There needs to be 3-5 intervals and the intervals need to last anywhere from 10 seconds all the way up to 1 minuet. The Target HR must be met as fast as you can, no loafing. The one minuet time frame is for an elite athlete. If you are not an elite athlete adjust it accordingly. I find that 20-30 seconds fits most people. So if you are in pretty good shape your workout would look like this.
Burst for 30 seconds
Rest for 30
Burst for 30
Rest for 30
Burst for 30
Cool Down and stretch.
That is the whole workout. It can be modified for whatever you need it to be but the key is the production of growth hormone and the key to that is that you push yourself for just a short amount of time.
What you can expect. Remember at the start of this article when I said that motivation was 1 of the 2 main factors why people don’t work out. The lack of motivation comes from lack of results. If you are not losing weight, if you are not getting any stronger how easy is it to keep going. On the other side when you do your burst training you will find quick returns, this will motivate you to keep going. With exercise it is very important to be consistent. For those who read my article on philosophy health is a series of choices stacked up on top of each other. Make the choice today to do a burst. I do mine at lunch time in my dress cloths.
We will be having a exercise class tomorrow night June 24, 2009 at 6. Wear good shoes and bring a friend
Get healthy Get happy and tell a Friend
Dr T
Champion Juicers
June 22nd, 2009
One of my patients brought in his Champion Juicer and made me lunch last Thursday and I must admit I was impressed. It is a great juicer at a great price. Click on the link above for more information
Get healthy Get Happy and Help a friend.
Dr T
philosophy
June 22nd, 2009Philosophy
There is no magic pill. When it comes to health there is no magic pill, no magic adjustment, no magic exercise. There are just a sequence of events that are either healing or destructive. These events can fall anywhere on the spectrum, from extremely destructive like a car crash, or mildly destructive like a cup of coffee. Likewise healing events can fall anywhere on the spectrum from something extremely healing like a juice feast to something mildly healing like a walk in the park. Thus we begin to see that health or sickness is made up of a series of choices and these choices shape our life. I am not saying that you must make perfect choices all of the time I am just saying that the good should outnumber the bad. What percentage of good vs. bad decisions you need to make in order to heal depends primarily on the level of your health and the processes going on in your body.
There are three main areas of insult to your system and thus there are three main areas of focus when healing your system. The three areas are Physical, Chemical and Emotional. A car wreck has severe physical ramifications on your body, like any injury, tissues are damaged and must be repaired for the body to be able to function again. Other areas of physical insult include misalignments of your spine, not getting proper exercise, and not getting enough sleep. Our nervous system is the master system in the body, it controls every function of every hormone, organ, gland, and tissue. Misalignments in the spine cause interference in the nervous system. This interference causes a decrease in the nervous systems ability to properly regulate itself, this leads to the breakdown of the body. That is the value of chiropractic. Many of you have sought out chiropractic for pain relief, and it will do that, but the value of chiropractic is its ability to help you regulate the master system in the body.
The chemical side of health is often the hardest one to reign in, and the one that is focused on the most, but when it is broken down to an elemental level is quite simple. Good in good out. When you put good things in your body good health comes out, when you put bad things in bad health comes out. You can not expect to eat processed foods for 20 years and come away with the same blood chemistry as someone who ate whole organic foods. It goes back to choices. Health is a series of good choices over time. The problem that I see most people running into is that they want the best of both worlds, they want to put bad things into their body, take a magic pill or two(maybe pharmaceutical, or the next miracle vitamin) and then expect good health in return. That is not how the body works, if you put in bad things, with a little bit of the good things, you get slightly above horrible health.
Emotional stress is one that we are not going to touch on to much, not because it is not important but because I am less qualified to do so. This much I will say, take care of the physical and the chemical factors in your life and the emotional factors will begin to take care of themselves. I have seen depression and anxiety totally corrected with nothing more than chiropractic adjustments. I have also seen it corrected with nothing more than taking away the processed foods and additives. I have seen ADD and ADHD that is cured without the use of drugs, only by taking away the physical and chemical stresses in the children.
In conclusion I would like to remind everyone that the body is a miracle, that it has in it a power, that it can heal itself of any infirmity, no disease is out of its scope for healing. It needs no miracle pill, it is the miracle. Simply remove the things in your life that are keeping the miracle from fruition.
chlorella: Definition from Answers.com
June 18th, 2009
chlorella: Definition from Answers.com
One of my patients sent me a email this week with a concern about vitamin b12 deficiency while doing a juice feast. This is a great question and a very important one to address. Vitamin b12 in a animal source vitamin and deficiency can lead to things such as anemia and neurological conditions. There are two different options to address this issue the first is to supplement with b vitamins and the second is to use chlorella. The link above has great content on chlorella and its benefits. I sell pure chlorella at the clinic and it is also one of the main ingredients in nano greens(my favorite supplement) also available here at the clinic.
get healthy get happy and tell a friend
Dr T
Omega Juicers – Products
June 17th, 2009
If you follow the link you will find the omega 8005 juicer. It is not the best juicer on the market and it is not the cheapest juicer on the market but it is the one that we settled on. It is a masticating juicer that makes a very high quality juice, it is reasonably fast and very easy to clean. The cost of the unit is from 260-300, you can find it all over the Internet. The 8003 and 8005 are the same unit the 8005 is chrome and the 8003 is plastic and white.
The other juicer that we were looking at in the same price range was the Solo Star II. The Solo star and the omega can both be bought at www.bestjuicers.com
this site rates the different juicers on different qualifications and both of these juicers rate well. The solo star rates a little better across the board but we found a better deal on the omega so that is the one we ended up with and we are very happy with it. Right now on bestjuicers.com they are both the same price 260.00 plus shipping.
good luck, get healthy, get happy, and then tell others your secret.
Dr. T
Lets get juicing
June 16th, 2009For those of you who were at the class last night, I hope that you were able to take something away from it, I had fun and I hope that you did too. If I did not say it last night strong enough the main thing that I wanted to get across was that juice feasting will heal you. Let me say that a different way, healing always and only comes from within, juice feasting will allow your body to heal.
The problem with the website is that it is not for the general public it is for someone who has been working at It for a while and has a good tolerance to juicing so this is my quick start guide to get you going and then we will send you to the juicefeasting.com website to do the rest.
- Start Slow. Instead of starting with 4 quarts a day and going cold turkey off of the solid foods, start with making yourself 1 quart each morning. When you are comfortable with having juice for breakfast then move to having your evening meal be juice as well. When that becomes comfortable set a date for your juice feasting kickoff and start. Before you start make sure you take time to read through their website and so you will know what to expect, and how to do it.
- Start simple. As far as health goes the greener the better. The healthiest things to juice are the green leafy veggies like the kale and chards and greens. The problem is that those are not always the tastiest ones, in fact they are great at bringing on the gag reflex. Start with the more mild veggies like the cucumbers and the celery, green lettuces are also good. By starting yummy and eventually adding in the good ones you will let you palate and your system become accustomed to them and will stick with your feast instead of quitting because it was just too yucky.
- Fruit. When I first recommend a juice feast to my patients most of them say how they love juice or how they have a juicer and juice all the time. The story quickly changes when I tell them that they are not to do fruits. Fruit juices are great and have tons of health benefits; however they also have tons of sugar, and for our purposes of providing a healing experience for the body they will not do. Fruit juices are fine in moderation after you have taken the time to do a feast and you have completely healed you body but before then they are just not a good idea.
- The exception to the fruit rule. There are a few fruits that are ok; in fact they are great for making your juice taste much better. The main one you will be using is granny smith apples. They really help the veggie juice go down and they require the same enzymes to digest as the veggies so you will definitely learn to love the granny smiths. Lemons are another exception. Other things that we like are ginger and garlic, word of caution, a little goes a long way.
That is pretty much it. Get started. Get healthy and then tell your story and turn someone else onto health.
Gallbladder Flush
June 11th, 2009How many people would consider waiting to change the oil filter until their car has 80,000 miles? Yet the body’s main filter the liver goes on and on with less than optimal fuel entering the body, it tries not to complain but eventually its productivity and capabilities are decreased and our health is left to suffer.
How do you know if your liver is in need of a good overhaul? The easiest way to find out is to do a liver gallbladder flush. If you pass a bunch of stones, you needed it. Most of us will greatly benefit from the liver cleanse and will immediate feel the results. Some of the common bennifits are: Better digestion, improvement of aches and pains all over the body, decrease in seasonal allergies.Lets get down to the mechanics of the cleanse and what you can expect when doing it.
We will break it down into 4 steps:
1st. Kill the buggies. The liver is a common place to have parasites so step 1 is to do a parasite cleanse. An easy way to do that is to use a tincture of Wormwood and Black Walnut. Cloves are also a good place to start. There are numerous other parasite cleanses out there. Find one you like and let us know how it worked. Do two weeks of your parasite cleanse before you move on to the next step. If you skip this step it will not work.
2nd Good Juice. Apple juice has an important element in it (malic acid) that will soften the stones in your gall bladder. Two days before your cleanse start drinking apple juice, drink as much as you can. You can still eat other foods if you like but they need to be low fat low protein. Just to give you a heads up, you will experience half a day of diarrhea so I recommend starting your apple juice on a Friday, you will continue to drink it until 2:00 the next day at which point you stop eating. Expect diarrhea on the last day or Sunday morning. Not everyone has it but if you have a half way decent digestive system you will.
3rd Not just for bruises. Take 4 tablespoons of Epsom Salts and mix with 3 cups of water make sure to do it cold as it is much more tolerable. This concoction is not, I repeat not to be taken all at once. Your first dose is taken at 6:00pm the next dose at 8:00pm. Each dose is ¾ cup.
You save the other two doses for the following morning. The 3rd dose to be taken as soon as you wake up in the morning just not before 6:00am and the last dose to be taken two hours after that.
4th The yummy part. Use fresh squeezed grapefruit juice from 1 large grapefruit or lemon juice from 3 lemons. Mix with ½ cup of olive oil. If you use the lemons, which I prefer, then you must mix and immediately drink. The rush isn’t as important if you use the grapefruit juice. Drink the concoction at 9:45pm and then go right to bed lying on your back and don’t move. It helps to take some orthonine to help you sleep. Some people complain about this drink but I love it and crave it.
What to expect. Sunday morning you will have very watery stools from the Epsom salts. You will need to spend a little time examining your stool to check for stones. These stone are mainly green or light yellow and will typically float in the toilet. You will want to count them to see how many you pass and also notice the size and color. If you pass a lot of stones great, they are no longer in your body. If you do not have some watery bowl movements and you followed these directions, we have got some work to do. Plan on repeating this cleanse a minimum of 4 times in a row every two weeks continuing with the parasite cleanse. You may have to do it up to 12 times, just keep going until you stop passing stones. The most complete website as far as information on gallbladder/liver flushes is curezone the link is:
http://www.curezone.com/cleanse/liver/default.asp
Any questions feel free to ask me. Good luck.
Juicefeasting kick off
June 11th, 2009Juicefeasting is the most powerful way to take back your health regain the vitality that is missing in your lives and and rid yourself of disease processes no matter the cause. The reason it is so powerful is because of the amount of good things you are taking into your body. When you go on a raw food diet you get many of the same bennifits, but you would have to eat 25lbs of food daily to get the benifits of drinking 1 gallon of veggie juice. For those of you that are interested we will be having a juicefeasting meeting at the clinic on monday the 15th of june at 6:00pm come and bring your family and friends. Come make yourself a suport group so you can make it thru your feast and come and taste some of the yummy juices we will be making. We will also be going over how to juice and what kind of juicers are the best.
If you have never heard of juicefeasting before you can look at the website, I would encourage you to do so. Read some of the testimonials on their website see if any of them sound like you. The website is www.juicefeasting.com
enjoy and I hope to see everyong on monday evening it is a great time of the year to get healthy with all of the good organic veggies comming up.
Dr. T