Auto-Immune diseases... Real help, by Corte Madera chiropractor Dr. Harte

Multiple sclerosis... lupus... Hashimoto's... scleroderma... rheumatoid arthritis... psoriasis... ulcerative colitis... Type I diabetes...

What do these diseases have in common? They are all auto-immune, which means that the body is attacking its own tissue, as if it were foreign tissue. How could the body go so haywire? Well, the immune system, like every other system in the body, is controlled by the brain and the nervous system. That control can be seriously interfered with by the presence of Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC)*, causing the received signals to the immune system to be either too little or too much. Either can cause dysfunction, leading to dis-ease, leading to actual and serious disease.

While people think that most disease is from lack, in actuality, most subluxation creates too much stimulation, leading to hyperactivity, such an auto-immune diseases.

What does Medicine offer for these maladies? Well, they tell you right off that there is no cure, and that they can only manage symptoms. One is depressing, and the other is downright dangerous. Besides the lesser drugs used for treating the lesser symptoms, the main drugs are either corticosteroids, which are extreme anti-inflammatories, or drugs like Humira or Enbrel which are designed to attack the immune system, or cancer chemotherapy agents. Look up the side effects of these drugs. Go ahead! The crazy thing is that they work to suppress the immune system, which can and does end up at the other end of immune system problems... CANCER. This is just plain nuts! (No, because your doctor said it's OK does not make it OK.)

What approach would make sense? How about, instead of fighting disease, you pursue health?

Chiropractic does not treat any diseases, including auto-immune diseases. We do correct interference to the nervous system, allowing the immune system to begin to function more normally. Does this sound infinitely safer? Saner? More workable? What do you think?

Many people who are very sick get defensive about their diagnosis and their specialists. This is understandable, for it is difficult to cope with the suffering that they are experiencing, and the hopelessness imparted to them by so-called "medical science." It is time to calm down and think rationally. The only real healing comes from within. Scientific, specific, gentle chiropractic adjustments allow that to happen.

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

Trading Arthritis for Cancer?

I've been seeing more and more TV ads for Enbrel, which, like Remicaid, is a drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

Yes, rheumatoid can be crippling. It can be a terrible thing. I can see how some people "would try anything." Well, these drugs are definitely in the category of "anything." How do they work?

Well rheumatoid arthritis is an auto-immune disease, like lupus or multiple sclerosis. That means that the immune system is so keyed up, so hyperactive, that it attacks the body's own tissue as if it belonged to someone else.

So what is the medical answer to a hyperactive immune syste? They essentially declare war on the immune system, attacking it vicously with these drugs. The hope is that the symptoms of rheumatoid will diminish. Of course, what really happens in many cases is the pendulum swings the other way. With the immune system chemically beaten to a pulp, the side effects of Enbrel and Remicaid are pneumonia, fungal infections and various forms of cancer. What a deal, huh?

Why not get to the cause, rather than cover up the symptoms?

The immune system, like every opther system, is run by the nervous system. Interference to that running can cause any manner of problems, including both too much and too litlle function.

As a straight chiropractor, I do not treat rheumatoid arthritis, nor any other kind of arthritis, nor anything else. I remove interference by correcting vertebral subluxation. Then your body is free to heal itself.

Dr Don Harte
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
Slayer of Subluxation