Hydration
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
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Amazing miracle Cure
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009philosophy
Monday, 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.
Lets get juicing
Tuesday, 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
Thursday, 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
Thursday, 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