FEAR, The #1 Weapon of Medicine by Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte

FEAR. Many assume that what Medicine uses to advance its case is science and reason. No, the #1 weapon (yes I do mean to use this word as its intent is aggressive) of Medicine is fear.

NOTE: Many people are very sensitive about any criticism of Medicine. I am not besmirching the character of individual medical doctors, most of whom wish to do good for people. I am besmirching the underlying philosophy, the intent of Medicine. Oh, I AM besmirching the character to those on top of the government health agencies and Big Pharma.

This has come to the fore in the current fight against AB2109, proposed California legislation (I call it "Poison the Kids Law") that would, effectively, destroy the personal belief vaccine exemption, causing far more children to get exposed to the dangers of serial vaccination. Far more will get sick and disabled, some permanently, and more will die. And the vaccine lobby, thus empowered, will ramp up its development of many more new sources of chemical terror.

Vaccination is often referred to, by its proponents, as "immunization." It is not. Immunization is a natural process of the immune system reacting to invaders. It is a complex, multifactorial process. Vaccination bypasses normal pathways, creating lesser levels of immunity by perverting normal biological processes.

The fact that vaccination is so accepted by our culture is by no means an indication of its safety or efficacy. It scores low on both these counts. The science behind it is laughable. Vaccination has caused untold suffering. So why does its acceptance still persist?

Why do so many medical myths persist? Why do most people still believe that: it's normal for children to have colds, flus, sore throats, earaches many times a year.... that cholesterol causes heart attack and stroke, that HRT (hormone replacement therapy) is good for menopausal women... that ADHD is actually a disease... that two year olds can be clinically depressed and will be helped with anti-depressants... that an 80 year old should have the blood pressure of a teenager... that perviously innocuous childhood disease like chicken pox are now, all of a sudden, deadly... that loss of bone density in later years is a disease... that health depends upon regular medical testing resulting in lifetime prescriptions of multiple drugs???

The answer is fear. People have been trained to fear disease like they feared demons and evil spirits in medieval times. You think we've advanced in our health thinking?

When I was discussing the vaccine issue with one of my practice members, she feared for her grandchildren. One of the fears? Diphtheria. Where would you even find diphtheria? Yet, it's still in the DPT shots. People so easily forget about the H1N1 pandemic that was going to kill off the world a couple of years ago. And the avain flu epidemic before that. People don't put together facts before their eyes. Here's one... Pretty much everyone over 50 is now on one or more drugs to reduce blood pressure, and drugs to reduce cholesterol, and a large percentage are on blood thinners... all designed to prevent heart attack and stroke. Yet, where is the change? The only changes are new tides of disease and suffering from the side effects of these drugs... sudden death from bleeding from the brain (stroke) or stomach or kidneys, dementia (from too-low blood pressure), diabetes, etc. They'll cite some form of cancer is diminishing, while other forms are getting wildly out of control. They'll scare you into getting various screening tests regularly, then the reports come out that these tests result in no better outcomes, no saving of life. Sometimes these screenings result in poorer outcomes. So they'll scare you with something else.

When I was in my 20's, they tried to scare me into a total lumbar fusion. Fortunately, I was more scared of the surgery, and I was fortunate enough to be referred to a chiropractor.

Most if not all of what they push as "preventive medicine" is based upon fear, and results in far more medical intervention, usually leading to more bad things.

There is the MFF... the Medical Finger of Fear. "If you don't listen to me, The Doctor... " This MFF is based upon the underlying medical philosophy, that "You are born with a deficiency of drugs and an excess of organs."

From newborns (obviously with parents making the decision, except where Big Brother tries to step in) to the elderly, isn't it time to replace fear with reason? Reason? Well, it is basic biological fact that the nervous system runs everything. If there is interference... Vertebral Subluxation Complex, life... health... is diminished. If that interference is corrected, health can be restored. This is what Chiropractic is about. Chiropractic is based upon reason, not fear.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

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Double your Drugs? wonders Corte Madera Chiropractor Dr Harte

Like some people watch sports on TV, I watch the drug ads, looking for the latest frightening trends of the latest fads in Medicine. Oh, I also check out the lawyer ads, looking for clients damaged or killed (in this case, their loved ones) from a particular drug or procedure. Hey, this is the only justice we get. The FDA? As they say in my native New York, FUGETTABOUTIT!!!

It seems a new, very frightening trend is, rather than replace a drug patients are taking with another, they are pushing the idea of adding another for the same symptom or condition. "If Scungilexa is not working as well as you expected, add Toxecia to your regimen. I have seen this for two conditions/circumstances.

For quite some time, the drug pushers (I forgot which one) has had ads out, "If your anti-depressants aren;t quite enough, add Abilify." What they don't tell you is Abilify is NOT and anti-depressant; it is anti-psychotic. As if anti-depressants aren't bad enough, anti-psychotics are considerably more dangerous. Some of their side effects are permanent, including tardive dyskinesia. (Google that one yourself. Frightening!)

The last few days, I have been seeing ads for Intuniv, a drug they say to throw at your ADHD child, who may not be totally perfect on his legal speed (Ritalin, Adderall, etc.) This one works on the frontal lobe. Charming, huh? Oh, and your child may faint.

Can't people see that this means that Big Pharma's much vaunted drugs just don't work? Why ad more junk that won't work, with more side effects?

Is this science, or is it fads? It can't be both. Think on that!

"Ew-ew-ew, but what else can I do? The Doctor said I need (my child needs) these medications." Really? Are you having mental troubles because of a lack of Lexapro or Ambilify? Is your child ADHD because of a deficiency of Ritalin and Intuniv?

Get to the cause. Free your brain and your nervous system, so that your brain and your body can function as it should. get checked. Get adjusted. And tell the people you care about.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Michael Jackson's MD on Trial: Thots of Marin Chiropractor Dr Harte

Dr. Conrad Murray is now on trial for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson died from a mixture of prescribed drugs, including one that is supposed to be used for anesthesia during surgeries. Where did he get this stuff? Wasn't the prescription of this stuff far off the beaten path of what it was supposed to be for, and what is was approved for? This is called "off-label" prescription.

If you think that off-label prescribing is limited to this case, or to crazy celebrity cases in general, think again. It is estimated that off-label represents 60% of all prescriptions. These medical guys can't even follow their own rules, their own protocols.

Then there is the problem of faulty, even phony diagnoses. This is rampant, particularly in the psychiatric field. Diagnosing two year old kids with depression? How do they do this? Diagnosing spirited boys with ADHD? Treating "depressives," where their anti-depressants don't work, with anti-psychotics? How many kids and adults will loss their minds from this, as well as other iatrogenic (physician-caused) disorders? How many will die?

How many REALLY should be on trial?

In the meantime, YOU can make your own judgments. Instead of relying on dangerous drugs to cover up symptoms (Outside-in), rely on your own G-d-given Innate Intelligence to heal you from Above-down, Inside-out. Yes, that's why you get adjusted.

If you aren't getting adjusted, call me NOW. (415)460-6527. Ask me about our fabulous Birthday Sale. You'll save a lot! It ends this Monday, October 3rd. Those of you who are Practice Members, get your friends and family in here. Let's help others to Health.

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Junk Science, Medicine and Chiropractic: Dr Harte, Marin Chiropractor

“Junk science”… a throwaway epithet. This epithet was thrown at me last week. Do people really know what science is, how the scientific method works, how science has progressed, and regressed, over time?

Science is NOT "what everybody knows." Science is NOT what authorities say that it is. Science is what is, what can be proven, what makes sense. 

Remember that Science once said that the earth was the center of the universe. (Copernicus and Galileo did not get Nobel Prizes.) Science once said that disease was the result of "falling from grace." Science decreed that Man could not fly. The number of medical drugs and procedures that were the "best science" of their time would be laughable if not for the toll of human misery and death that they caused. This process evolves even today, when you see the late night TV ads of lawyers looking for clients who have been injured (if killed, their relatives would be the client) from the latest drug disaster. The current one is Avandia, a drug for diabetes. (Back in the early 70's another diabetes drug killed my dad.) 

The "junk science" epithet was thrown at me for my stand against vaccinations. Well, common sense would say that assaulting a child's immune system with bacterial and viral challenges in a grossly unnatural manner, on a serial basis, pumped up by known toxic substances, is not a path to health. Common sense would also say that the extreme expansion of mandated vaccinations is the only thing that could have changed the health of children so radically in two generations, where previously very rare conditions... autism, juvenile (type 1) diabetes, ADHD and other learning disabilities, childhood cancer, asthma, etc., are now commonplace. Medicine, vaccination, specifically, becomes junk science.

Real science is the body is a self-healing, self-regulating, self-perfecting mechanism. Correct interference, and health happens This is Chiropractic. This is real science.

Don Harte, D.C.

Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor

Liberator of Innate

Marin's Drug Culture and the Death of Amy Winehouse

One one drug-crazed celebrity dies. This is news because she was a celebrity. People die from drugs every day, except they are regular people. Long-term usage, and short-term mistakes in the hospital.

Marin has a history of the drug culture of the 60's. The journey from recreational, illegal drug use to therapeutic, prescribed drug use is not difficult. Both are based upon a faith in chemicals to get you somewhere. The "somewhere" could be "high" or it could be the diminution or control of a symptom. Drugs are relied upon to do things, and they do. You could see them as magic potions. Either path, recreational or therapeutic, is, in reality, the same path. Besides, a great number of therapeutic drugs are "mind-altering."

There are different speeds to self-destruction. One is rather quick death, or death at an early age, from excess, the speed of Amy. It is odd to note that one of her current hit songs is about "rehab." Well that didn't work. What else is new? Most rehab is an elaborate and grossly expensive charade, substituting legal drugs for illegal drugs. Does the body really know the difference? So, what's the difference? The only rehab program that I ever heard of that actually worked is called "Exodus," in Miami. It is run by Dr. Jay Holder, a chiropractor. Instead of substituting drugs for drugs, he ADJUSTS THEM. Amazing results.

Then there is slow speed drug death. Refer to my last blogpost, about statin drugs, slowly destroying muscles, liver, kidneys, pancreas and even what they are supposed to protect... the heart. There's serial vaccination, bringing about slow destruction of the immune system. Diabetes drugs, that destroy the heart. The drugs for auto-immune diseases frpm psoriasis to lupus to MS, that end up causing cancer.Drugs like Ritalin given to kids with ADHD damage the heart, and do who-knows-what to the developing brain. So many other examples..

Then, there are the psychotropic drugs that slowly destroy the mind. This is especially true when anti-depressants are given to kids as young as two! Frying their poor little brains, they are put on anti-psychotics at five year old. Death of little minds and souls... a tragedy!

This information is out there. Yes, we live in a drug culture, probably worse in Marin than most other places. Yes, you do get to go places with drugs... sometimes all the way to the Marble Orchard.

NOTE TO THOSE WHO ARE NOW WONDERING "WHAT ELSE CAN I DO? I HAVE RECALCITRANT FULMINATING SCUNGELOSIS":What else can you do? You can get in here, get adjusted, and allow your body to heal. There's a good chance that you will "need" less drugs, perhaps none in time. Over the years, I have seen Practice Members throw away drugs for gout, anti-depressants, thyroid hormones, heart medications, diabetes drugs, beta-blockers, pain medications, etc. Remove interference, and all is possible.

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Marin Chiropractor Declares Independence

"To restrict the practice of medicine to one class of men is but a fragment of the monarchy."
- Benjamin Rush, M.D., a signer of the Declaration of Independence

Monday is Independence Day. Let's consider, in this age of moral relativism, what the implications are in Chiropractic to Medicine and to society at large, and to itself.

The trend towards third party control, whether it be insurance companies, managed care outfits like Kaiser, or the government, takes away from liberty. It takes away from your power to decide what type, what level, what doctor, what quantity of health care you want for yourself and your family. I know that more and more people are of a mind that the government always knows best, and automatically, They know better than you do. If you stop and think, this view is out-and-out nuts. The FDA and, to a lesser extent, the CDC are ongoing examples of corruption and incompetence. In reality, the only effective protection we, the medical care-consuming public, have is the work of class action attorneys going after drugs and medical devices that have injured and killed many, many people. How Medicare is run, on a clinical basis, is a disgrace. On a state level, to call the Board of Chiropractic Examiners a disgrace would almost be a compliment. They represent a perversion of Chiropractic, and think that their mission is to protect the public from Chiropractic. Over the years, they have terrorized the profession, dramatically limiting the public's access to good chiropractic care. In other words, government does not help or improve the health care situation. Government has become, in this circumstance, a giant subluxation.

Sadly, more and more people are willing to give up their liberty to third parties.It is time for you, the people, to declare your own independence, to make your own decisions regarding your own health. This also applies to what The Doctor tells you, and what everyone else is doing. The Doctor is not your mother/father/master. You are your own master. History is littered with the corpses of people, INCLUDING MY FATHER, who followed standard medical recommendations. Think for yourself.

Think? Yes, think, instead of following like sheep. Think about the differences between Medicine and Chiropractic. Which one is dangerous (kills between 180,000 to over a million people a year) and which one is safe? Which one maintains you in your sicknesses, and which one allows your body to heal and express it self at higher levels? Which one is based upon the medieval premise that health comes from Outside-in (evil spirits, bacteria, viruses...) and which one understands that health only comes from Above-down, Inside-out? THINK! Be independent.

Probably the worst sort liberty-taking in health care is "mandated vaccinations." Who is the government, and their hack doctors, to tell you that you have to submit your child to serial poisoning, exposing him or her to the possibility of autism, Type I diabetes, irritable bowel, syndrome, ADHD, juvenile arthritis, etc.? BJ Palmer, the Developer of Chiropractic, said, "The school may be public but the child is not." His father, the founder of Chiropractic, DD Palmer, wrote "Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in this land of freedom." 


What do YOU think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Marin Chiropractor Explains "Trickle-Up Disease"

People get diseases easily enough. They don't need, and certainly don't want help in this.

The age-old question is "Where does disease come from?' Or, more to the point, "Why am I sick?"

I won't go through all of the silly answers to these questions that the medical profession regularly provides. But I do present to you the question that Dr. D. D. Palmer, the Father of Chiropractic, asked of himself:
"I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench, was not. Why? What difference was there in two persons that caused one to have various diseases and while his partner escaped?"

The DIFFERENCE was, and is subluxation... interference to the nervous system, the master system, causing dysfunction. You see, you have to have dis-ease before you have disease.

Subluxation comes from three causes, physical, chemical and emotional. Yes, the latter two causes can literally move vertebrae into a subluxated state. It's not just physical cause.

Now that we've got that squared away, what do I mean by "trickle-up disease?" Well, Medicine is the diagnosis and treatment of disease. What about the myriad weird and dangerous chemicals that "Modern" Medicine subjects the unsuspecting populace (YOU) to? Look up any drug, and you will see side effects. In fact, Dr. Ely Lilly, of the famous Ely Lilly Pharmaceuticals, said: "Show me a drug without side effects, and I will tell you that that is not a drug."

Of special concern are the many types of drugs that people are put on for years, often for life... drugs to treat diabetes, depression, anxiety, bi-polar, asthma, etc. Some of these drugs are allegedly "preventative," like the blood thinners, and those for high blood pressure.

Of even more concern to any thinking and informed individual is the obscene quantity of vaccinations that children receive these days. Massive amounts of toxic substances dumped into children's bloodstreams, on a serial basis. "Trickling up," is the mass occurences of autism, ADHD and other learning disabilities, Type I (juvenile) diabetes, juvenile arthritis, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome. I predict that incidences of cancer of various sorts will skyrocket at earlier and earlier ages.

Why not eliminate what is causing the subluxation, which is causing the disease and suffering? If you still think that a drug is safe because the FDA approved it, or because The Doctor said so, think again. It is time to start thinking.

Your life, and those around you, depend upon you thinking, and coming to some rational conclusions about where disease comes from. No need to seek it out, is there?

What are YOUR thoughts?

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Latest Health Threat to Teens

From where? From the marketing geniuses/fiends of the PMG (Pharmaceutical-Medical-Governmental) Complex.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, "Special Age, Special Doctor," threatens a whole new medical specialty, with its inflated "risks," probably new diagnoses, both physical and mental, and vastly increased pushing of prescription drugs.

The assumptions for teens here? (1) The body is stupid. (2) There are all kinds of terrible threats out there. (3) Medicine has the answer to everything. (4) The more testing, diagnosing, treating, drugging... the healthier??? Or... the sicker???

The new "Adolescent Health" issues?

Acne. Well, Medicine's last big drug for acne, Accutane, ended up causing all kinds of damage, including Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Crohn's Disease. That will make a teen's life better, huh?

Tatoos and piercings: Risk of hepatitis. I guess that they don't really believe that their vaccinations work

Sports Injury: They recommend a back exam. Now that is funny! What does a pediatrician or teen-pediatrician knows about the spine?

Mental Disorders: A great deal of this is caused, or at least exacerbated, by pediatricians who prescribe anti-depressants to children as young as two years old. With their developing brain chemistry so perverted, by the time they are five or six, they are so wacky that they are then diagnosed as "bi-polar," and are given anti-psychotics. Then there's all the ADHD drugs, which are different forms of "speed."

When I was growing up, there were no teen pediatricians, and hardly and regular pediatricians. Amazing that we survived, isn't it?

Use your head, Parents! The more Medicine, including the latest fads*, that your teen gets, the sicker he or she will be.

Use your head. Get their nervous system checked. Like everyone else at every age, they need chiropractic care too.

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor

* Yes, even in Marin, parents can be fooled by medical fads, disguised as "the latest," or "advances," or even "breakthroughs."

Teen suicide

This week, the Pacific Sun did a cover story on teen suicide. Sad stuff, but the usual party-line medical drivel doesn't help. In fact, it often hurts.

This is what I sent in as a letter to the editor:

Pacific Sun

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

11/5/10

Your teen suicide article struck me, in large part, as irresponsible and dogmatic.

Why advise people to get “professional help” when that help is more of a risk than help? In several places in the article, the praises of anti-depressants were sung. I know that some people don’t read the warnings that come with these allegedly safe prescribed drugs. And it seems that the so-called experts just don’t care. Their dogma is that prescribed drugs are safe and effective. This is unscientific nonsense.

Look it up! Virtually all of the anti-depressants bear warnings about suicide ideation in teenagers and young adults. Then, there is the widespread practice of loading up kids on prescribed psychotropic drugs as young as two years old… the ADHD drugs (Ritalin, Adderall, etc.) and SSRI’s (anti-depressants). By the time these poor kids are five or six, they are often diagnosed as bi-polar, and put on anti-psychotics. Does anyone have any idea what this sort of merciless chemical warfare has upon the developing brain of a child?

BEFORE the tragedy of teen suicide, parents should think twice before allowing their children’s minds to be chemically warped. Last time I looked, the brain was a part of the nervous system. I can say with 100% authority that it is infinitely safer to entrust your child’s health to a straight chiropractor, to keep that nervous system without interference, functioning at a higher, healthier level. That certainly won’t add to this teen suicide problem, and it may very well help.


NOT SENT TO THE PACIFIC SUN:
Frankly, I think that the pediatricians and psychiatrists that wrote prescriptions that resulted in teen suicides out to be charged with manslaughter. At the very least, their medical licenses should go into the shredder.

That's my stand. What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin straight chiropractor
Liberator of Innate
Slayer of Subluixation