Chiropractic Elk Grove

By. Dr. Ben Lerner

“Almost no one knows what the definition of health really is. Therefore that which they believe about health cannot be true.”
- Dr. Ian Grassam

To have a true wellness revolution, you must first answer the question: What is wellness? The term has been badly abused. Clinics offering abortion often call themselves Women’s Wellness Centers, and doctors and hospitals offer “wellness visits” through which they provide expensive exams and tests in an effort to create “early detection” of disease. Unfortunately, “early” is still after the fact, and the treatments involve more prescriptions and surgery. Injectable drugs and prescriptions are given even to children and the elderly in the name of “wellness.”

To know what real wellness is, you have to first define what health really is. Most people would say they’re healthy when they have no pain, no runny nose, no headache. In other words: I’m healthy when I feel good. In today’s fad-diet-and-home-exercise-infomercial world, health has also come to mean losing weight or looking good.

There are three problems with this. First, when you think health is feeling good, what do you usually do when you feel bad? You take a drug to feel good and then assume you’re healthy. Yet, as you now know, you do not automatically become healthy when a drug eliminates your symptoms, and in fact, you may be even sicker.

Second, when my father died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-two, he died without prior symptoms of heart disease and had passed previous medical evaluation. His doctor told us that in more than two-thirds of people who have a heart problem, the first sign is a heart attack. Then, in two-thirds of those, the people die.  Or, for the majority of people, the first sign that you have a heart problem is that you are dead. As my family discovered, that’s a little late to begin looking into it.

I could go on with story after story of people I’ve seen in my clinics who chose to not follow through with care based on the fact that they felt fine, only later to discover disease that was so far along by the time they discovered it, it was too late. By the time you actually know you have cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and other physical problems, these conditions have typically been ravaging your body for years. The same is true even for spine and extremity pain. By the time it hurts, MRIs and x-rays often show massive arthritic degeneration and/or disc damage that’s been developing for years.

Third, there’s the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” myth. Thinking If I have no symptoms of a disease, then I don’t have to worry about disease is one of the most colossal errors in judgment you could ever make concerning your health. You might not have a diagnosed disease, but dis-ease can go on for years without warning before being discovered as disease. This type of thinking will, without argument, eventually shorten your life.

The following is a list from the Merck Manual of Medical Diagnosis. These are some of the most common diseases we face today and are all present in the body without any signs or symptoms noticeable to the victim:

• Heart arrhythmia     
• Glomerulonephritis (Kidney disease)
• Atherosclerosis (Plaque in arteries)    
• Hypertension (High blood pressure)
• Osteoarthritis    
• Ovarian cancer
• Benign prostatic hypertrophy    
• Ovarian cyst
• Breast cancer     
• Paget’s (bone) disease
• Cardiomyopathy     
• Spinal degeneration
• Polyps of large bowel    
• Cervical cancer     
• Prostate cancer     
• Cholelithiasis*(Gall stones)
• Pulmonary valve stenosis*    
• Renal calculi*(Kidney stones)
• Coronary artery disease    
• Renal (kidney) failure (chronic)
• Diabetes mellitus    
• Retinoblastoma* (cancer of the eye)
• Diverticular (colon) disease    
• Scoliosis (Curvature of the spine)
• Emphysema (lung disease)    
• Tooth decay
• Fibroid tumors of the uterus    
• Valvular heart disease

Seeking freedom from symptoms is easy to do and may even guarantee those results. The only thing it can never bring you, however, is health. In fact, as the Merck Manual shows us, being free from symptoms may just cover up signs of dis-ease and keep you ignorant of your perilous predicament.

Come see us a local Maximized Living Doctor to find out more about maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Also ask  about the stress talk taking place on April 4th in their office.

Avoiding the flu this winter.  Should you get a recommended flu shot?  There are a number of risks that citizens should know about & the potentially harmful ingredients.  Proteins that can cause anaphylactic shock, Carcinogen formaldehyde, powerful nerve poisons such as mercury & aluminum salts.  Here at Peak Performance we like to promote four healthy and natural ways to combat the Flu.   Get adjusted, boost your vitamin C intake to 500 to 1000 mg per hour while you’re awake, also take 3 or 4 zinc lozenges a day, 1/2 dropper of Echinacea extract 3 x a day & a clove or two of fresh garlic or its supplemental equivalent.  Take Oscillococcinum-If used at the first sign of a flu, this homeopathic remedy can dramatically shorten the duration of fever, headache, stiffness & back & joint pain & other symptoms.  Avoid antihistamines-These drugs cause dehydration, creating an environment that is even more hospitable to viruses.  Drink ginger tea- It will help keep your respiratory tract moist & relieve nausea, vomiting & diarrhea.  For extra protection, it is recommended to add one or more of the following herbal supplements:  Echinacea-Which destroys cells infected with viruses, Astragalus-builds resistance to disease, Elderberry-prevents flu viruses from gaining access to the cell’s interior.  If you need a good herbal store visit Elk Grove Vitamins or The vitamin store here in Elk Grove.

We cant wait to get started, we just recently came back from a intensive, informative nutritional seminar given by Maximized Living. We learned how to detoxify heavy metal toxins, biotoxins, environmental toxins, we also learned what these toxins are caused from and how to effectively use testing to determine what each person needs to detoxify their body through a healing diet and vitamins to achieve an optimal healthy life.