Thank you for the statement Senator Edward Kennedy. It is well thought out and makes some excellent points. I feel obligated to clear up some of the points made and hopefully add some real value.
There are many places that the comments show that the words medicine and healthcare are interchangeable. They are clearly not and it is not simply semantics. This is a common practice and shines a light on how conditioned we have become by the industrial complex known as medicine. A search online on the history of the monopolizing power of medicine will make anyone that cares to look, aware of how deep rooted the problems truly are.
As well meaning as Senator Kennedy may be, unfortunately the change that is vital will not come about with the same mindset that sub-consciously and perniciously pervades our brains.
Preventing disease is quite different from creating health. The term preventive medicine is an oxymoron that is accepted as normal. Medicine was never designed to create health and wellness, yet it also never allowed any other type of practitioners to focus in this area. Medical education is one spoke in the wheel of the healthcare system and has attempted to dominate the market place for over a century by assuming that the term medicine is all encompassing. There are many healthcare providers that are extremely well trained in the healing arts and science, that do not go through the traditional medical model of education. That lack of awareness of this in the statement shows that Senator Kennedy may not have a complete grasp of why the system is broken in the first place.
Early and possibly free tests are nothing new and usually are code words for someone else paying. It also usually means that the treatments options will be increases in dispensing medicine and surgeries. Using words like wellness but not understanding them become buzz terms for marketing firms yet do nothing to actually help right the ship.
Big pharma, which has destroyed any idea of Americans taking responsibility for their own outcomes, our corrupt agricultural businesses and stock price driven insurance companies are too powerful and insidious for any reform to add up to much. As we watch oil prices rise and fall, Americans are having their attention diverted as hundreds of thousands of people die because of medical mistakes every year in this country. The miracle of modern medicine brings back memories from The Wizard Of Oz with the man behind the curtain. At this point in our history it is imperative that we make it a Health Revolution.
We need to join together as health providers of all disciplines, consumers and leaders to go through the most difficult challenge we will face in our lifetimes. Empowering people to realize that they can create health largely by the decisions they make day to day. A large part of the Revolution should include a spoke of the wheel being in charge of the wellness arena that is separate and distinct from medicine yet working for the ultimate benefit of the patient.
There are several highly trained health providers that have been leading the charge to health and wellness. They consist of Chiropractors, Naturopaths, Acupuncturists, Holistic Health Counselors, Licensed Massage Therapists, Holistic Medical Doctors, Nurse Practitioners and many others. Much of this change has been driven by individuals taking responsibility and helping others by self training in many health related areas such as nutrition and energy healing to name just two.
Chiropractors that are positioning themselves as holistic healers have been leading the wellness charge for decades and have been experiencing astonishing results naturally, without drugs or surgery.
This article is not intended to have all the answers or a complete plan laid out, but it is necessary to be clear about the rhetoric that is being presented to the American people and let people know that there is a new paradigm growing every day.
I understand that this article will come up against much opposition and I look forward to continuing the conversation respectfully with any one that so chooses.
Sincerely,
Dr. Edward Beck
Advanced Chiropractic Center
www.HealingPotential.com
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Friday, June 5, 2009
Increase Your Energy 100%
If there’s one thing that the large majority of patients I see would like to have help with, it’s increasing their energy. How’s your energy? I mean before the second cup of coffee or foo foo drink from Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts. Are you fatigued? Fatigue is one of the most common complaints in any doctor’s office. Chronic fatigue has become a household phrase. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is becoming one of the most common yet misunderstood diagnoses in America today. There are many reasons for having a lack of energy. Working too many hours, emotional stress, health conditions and even too much late night tv when your favorite show is on. However, there is a very common factor in fatigue. The good news is that there is a simple way to increase your energy and it’s effective and incredibly easy. So what is it?
Remember when you went to a school dance and the boys stood on one side and girls on the other side of the room? Everyone was nervous and wanted to talk to other people but their legs felt like concrete. Your heart was beating faster and you could not think of what to say.
Then the music started. After a few minutes, one of your favorite songs came on and you and your friends looked at each other and were nervous and excited. The next few minutes were a little bit of a blur but the next thing you knew you were standing across from a person and you were both moving your legs, arms and body awkwardly to the beat.
I’m back from my daydream. Thanks for joining me. The point is that there was what we call a catalyst. The music somehow started a reaction inside that helped move everyone across the floor. There is a major catalyst in our bodies that is similar to the most amazing music. It’s called enzymes. Digestive enzymes break down the food into nutrients that we need for every function in our bodies. They have been called the spark of life by some scientists. The food we eat is packed full of these tiny spark plugs. Food comes with enzymes so you can break it down while using very little of your own. This allows you to conserve your energy for other functions. Meanwhile, we consume large amounts of energy drinks and caffeine to get through the day.
So how do we increase our energy 100%? First, we need to start eating whole foods and make sure most of them are fresh and not cooked, micro-waved etc. The second thing we need to do is increase our fresh, clean water intake. Both of these are the easiest and most effective ways to increase your energy through the roof. Try this for one week and let me know how you feel.
Interested in one more great way to increase your energy? Check out our upcoming articles on increasing energy.
Create great health!
www.HealingPotential.com
Remember when you went to a school dance and the boys stood on one side and girls on the other side of the room? Everyone was nervous and wanted to talk to other people but their legs felt like concrete. Your heart was beating faster and you could not think of what to say.
Then the music started. After a few minutes, one of your favorite songs came on and you and your friends looked at each other and were nervous and excited. The next few minutes were a little bit of a blur but the next thing you knew you were standing across from a person and you were both moving your legs, arms and body awkwardly to the beat.
I’m back from my daydream. Thanks for joining me. The point is that there was what we call a catalyst. The music somehow started a reaction inside that helped move everyone across the floor. There is a major catalyst in our bodies that is similar to the most amazing music. It’s called enzymes. Digestive enzymes break down the food into nutrients that we need for every function in our bodies. They have been called the spark of life by some scientists. The food we eat is packed full of these tiny spark plugs. Food comes with enzymes so you can break it down while using very little of your own. This allows you to conserve your energy for other functions. Meanwhile, we consume large amounts of energy drinks and caffeine to get through the day.
So how do we increase our energy 100%? First, we need to start eating whole foods and make sure most of them are fresh and not cooked, micro-waved etc. The second thing we need to do is increase our fresh, clean water intake. Both of these are the easiest and most effective ways to increase your energy through the roof. Try this for one week and let me know how you feel.
Interested in one more great way to increase your energy? Check out our upcoming articles on increasing energy.
Create great health!
www.HealingPotential.com
Do We Really Need Supplements?
I think you can decide for yourself once we go over some basic understanding of the needs of our bodies. Health supplementation has been around formally for almost one hundred years. There are some cultures that having been using herbal supplements for thousands of year.
Let’s start with the concept of what food gives us. In addition to all of the traditions and social reasons for eating, food gives us the fuel our body needs to run on. It is made up of nutrients that we use as building blocks. It has minerals and trace minerals and other essential components for all of the functions that cells, organs and systems of the body use to work every second of every day. Another important component which is often ignored is the enzymes inherent in all foods that assist in breaking it down into the perfect makeup to be used by the person that eats it.
Let’s go over some of the issues that we have with our foods currently that may make supplements important. The first one is that most people get their nutritional advice from TV advertisers. Unfortunately, our basic understanding of food and nutrition is sadly lacking so it has been virtually ignored for decades. Much of our food today is made in a lab and does not even come close to the type of food that our grandparents put in their mouths. There are chemicals, processed ingredients, and artificial colors and flavors which most of our ancestors rarely experienced if at all. We have been taught to pay close attention to calories or amounts but have completely ignored the actual quality of the foods.
I will give you a very simple way of looking at food which will help change your view forever. Food is alive and when we eat it we absorb the energy in the form of all the nutrients and transform it into energy that we can use. It takes a certain specific energy which is similar to the gasoline in your car. The car has to have a certain type of fuel in order to have the chemical reactions take place to make it go. What would happen if you put freshly squeezed organic orange juice in the tank? How about a gallon of the finest wine? The point is that if they did not process the gas correctly so that it was the correct grade it would not make the car move.
So assuming that we all eat extremely well then we should get all of the nutrients that we need to function optimally and we would not need supplements. Well the problem is that I am still waiting to meet the person who eats so well. Some of the obvious issues like fast food and junk food as well as processed food are lacking this vital energy. The gasoline is not the right grade to run our engines.
Another major problem is that our top soil which we grow our foods in is being used to quickly for it to replenish itself adequately. This leads to food which looks fine but has less nutrient value than it did years ago.
So do we really need supplements? Watch this short video and decide for yourself.
Feel free to “Ask the Doctor” and get your questions answered.
Create Great Health!
http://www.healingpotential.com/
Let’s start with the concept of what food gives us. In addition to all of the traditions and social reasons for eating, food gives us the fuel our body needs to run on. It is made up of nutrients that we use as building blocks. It has minerals and trace minerals and other essential components for all of the functions that cells, organs and systems of the body use to work every second of every day. Another important component which is often ignored is the enzymes inherent in all foods that assist in breaking it down into the perfect makeup to be used by the person that eats it.
Let’s go over some of the issues that we have with our foods currently that may make supplements important. The first one is that most people get their nutritional advice from TV advertisers. Unfortunately, our basic understanding of food and nutrition is sadly lacking so it has been virtually ignored for decades. Much of our food today is made in a lab and does not even come close to the type of food that our grandparents put in their mouths. There are chemicals, processed ingredients, and artificial colors and flavors which most of our ancestors rarely experienced if at all. We have been taught to pay close attention to calories or amounts but have completely ignored the actual quality of the foods.
I will give you a very simple way of looking at food which will help change your view forever. Food is alive and when we eat it we absorb the energy in the form of all the nutrients and transform it into energy that we can use. It takes a certain specific energy which is similar to the gasoline in your car. The car has to have a certain type of fuel in order to have the chemical reactions take place to make it go. What would happen if you put freshly squeezed organic orange juice in the tank? How about a gallon of the finest wine? The point is that if they did not process the gas correctly so that it was the correct grade it would not make the car move.
So assuming that we all eat extremely well then we should get all of the nutrients that we need to function optimally and we would not need supplements. Well the problem is that I am still waiting to meet the person who eats so well. Some of the obvious issues like fast food and junk food as well as processed food are lacking this vital energy. The gasoline is not the right grade to run our engines.
Another major problem is that our top soil which we grow our foods in is being used to quickly for it to replenish itself adequately. This leads to food which looks fine but has less nutrient value than it did years ago.
So do we really need supplements? Watch this short video and decide for yourself.
Feel free to “Ask the Doctor” and get your questions answered.
Create Great Health!
http://www.healingpotential.com/
Heakthcare Breakthroughs, Hope or Hype
Antibiotics will make infectious diseases obsolete. Vaccines will prevent childhood illness. Help raise money because a cure is right over the horizon. Modern medicine is the reason we are living longer. Gene manipulation and stem cell research will soon be the answer to diseases like Parkinsons, Alzheimers and even cancer. Do you recognize any of these statements?
It's what I call the New Tide Syndrome. Every year, Tide promises us that the detergent will clean our dirty clothes even better that last year. Weather you believe your clothes are much cleaner or not is up to you. I believe this is mostly marketing hype and the parallels in the Healthcare system are striking in my opinion. The American healthcare system will now be referred to by me as the "sickcare system", since this is more acurate. Over 25 Billion dollars per year are spent to advertise to Americans and their trusted doctors. Every year people are promised better results and more health and yet the statistics do not show this as true. Conflict of interest relationships with the FDA and Big Pharma are common place even after they are uncovered. 100,000 lives are lost in the U.S. every year due to hospital errors and millions are harmed by medication errors. This does not mean that people are intentionally injuring patients. Obviously the large majority of health providers have good intentions and yet the medical industrial complex fails to inspire people to become truly healthy.
The World Health Organization has a definition of health. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health
Of course most Americans are unaware of this probably, which is one of the reasons we accept the dismal system that we have.
The United Nations keeps track of Infant Mortality. The infant mortality rate (IMR) is the number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country. Would you think that America was number one on the list and babies would be safe here. We are currently 45 on the list from best to worst. You can verify this on the CIA WORLD FACT BOOK or even as easily as checking Wikipedia.
We are also told that we live the longest which is another fallacy. There are groups of people around the world that do live longer on average and their quality of health in later years is astounding. Each group that is studied has some definite trends that we can all learn from. Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with modern medicine, as many of them hardly use our supposed breakthroughs. If you would like some of the books and research, feel free to contact me for the sources. The good news is that creating health is not expensive and many of the answers are simple.
I know that this blog will create some opposition but I believe the facts are more important than arguements, it is time for health providers to stand up, unite and make real health changes for Americans.
It does not come in a bottle or a pill and it never will. True health comes from within and educating yourself and taking control of your own body and mind.
Create a healthy day,
Dr. Edward Beck
Advanced Chiropractic Center
http://www.healingpotential.com/
It's what I call the New Tide Syndrome. Every year, Tide promises us that the detergent will clean our dirty clothes even better that last year. Weather you believe your clothes are much cleaner or not is up to you. I believe this is mostly marketing hype and the parallels in the Healthcare system are striking in my opinion. The American healthcare system will now be referred to by me as the "sickcare system", since this is more acurate. Over 25 Billion dollars per year are spent to advertise to Americans and their trusted doctors. Every year people are promised better results and more health and yet the statistics do not show this as true. Conflict of interest relationships with the FDA and Big Pharma are common place even after they are uncovered. 100,000 lives are lost in the U.S. every year due to hospital errors and millions are harmed by medication errors. This does not mean that people are intentionally injuring patients. Obviously the large majority of health providers have good intentions and yet the medical industrial complex fails to inspire people to become truly healthy.
The World Health Organization has a definition of health. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health
Of course most Americans are unaware of this probably, which is one of the reasons we accept the dismal system that we have.
The United Nations keeps track of Infant Mortality. The infant mortality rate (IMR) is the number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country. Would you think that America was number one on the list and babies would be safe here. We are currently 45 on the list from best to worst. You can verify this on the CIA WORLD FACT BOOK or even as easily as checking Wikipedia.
We are also told that we live the longest which is another fallacy. There are groups of people around the world that do live longer on average and their quality of health in later years is astounding. Each group that is studied has some definite trends that we can all learn from. Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with modern medicine, as many of them hardly use our supposed breakthroughs. If you would like some of the books and research, feel free to contact me for the sources. The good news is that creating health is not expensive and many of the answers are simple.
I know that this blog will create some opposition but I believe the facts are more important than arguements, it is time for health providers to stand up, unite and make real health changes for Americans.
It does not come in a bottle or a pill and it never will. True health comes from within and educating yourself and taking control of your own body and mind.
Create a healthy day,
Dr. Edward Beck
Advanced Chiropractic Center
http://www.healingpotential.com/
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