Whooping Cough vs. Marin Chiropractor

Seems like the media is finally picking up on what the people, especially in Marin, have already figured out. People are now questioning vaccination, and, specifically, the new requirement for 7th through 12th graders to get one more "whooping cough" booster shot.

I put whooping cough in quotations because the shot is actually a newer version of the old DPT shot, now called DTaP. The "D" standing for diphtheria. Where would anyone get diphtheria. Why is it in the vaccine? What about tetanus? The vaccine is pushed as a "whooping cough" shot because that is the particular campaign of fear being presented.

Nobody is mentioning that this is a booster shot., that the kids have already had several DPT shots. (Doesn't this prove that the promised immunity is not what was promised?)

The "authorities" deny any connection of serial vaccination with skyrocketing rates of autism, learning disabilities, childhood cancers, asthma, juvenile diabetes and arthritis, etc. They produce no plausible evidence to other causation. How can they justify dosing kids with known toxic substances, including mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, etc.? I tried to teach them at the 8/10 meeting of the Marin County Board of Supervisors.

These same authorities have come up with bogus scenarios, regarding other vaccines before, such as Guardisil
and the annual flu vaccine extravaganza.

When will more people wake up, and make better decisions for their kids?

As I said in my recent KTVU interview (which was edited out), "You cannot poison kids to health." I went on to say that rather than focusing on fighting disease, we should focus on fostering health. That includes regular wellness chiropractic care, so important for the developing minds and bodies of children.

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

Happy Marin Chiropractic Practice Members

While most think that Chiropractic is about bad backs, here's some comments from happy practice members (not "patients"):

“I am experiencing more of the ‘Juice of Life.’ I feel a large increase in my knowledge/awareness of what subluxation is and how if affects the body.” I know that my body/mind is benefiting more than I may know.”  - Katie Reid, San Francisco

“More mobility, less tightness, better sense of posture, better digestion/elimination, mcu less allergies.”  - Mark Favell, San Francisco

"Some six years ago while engaged in my morning five mile walk, I began to suffer an intense pain on the top of my right foot. Not finding any understanding from my physician, I approached Dr. Harte on a referral. After doing anatomical research, he discerned the source of my malady, and after  several months of adjustment, it disappeared--permanently! During the course of treatment, Dr. Harte educated me in the technique of stright chiropractic, which he practices, and its origins in the  discovery of chiropractic. I signed up for the wellness program and have been with him--and illness and injury free---ever since. I could not recommend a health-care professional more highly."    - Clay Jackson, Mill Valley

“I first went to see Dr. Harte in fall of 2008, at the urging of a friend, and have gone about once a week since. Having spent 4 decades hunched over a computer by day and sometimes night, plus lots of commuting, my shoulders and back need un-kinking so that I can stand & sit straight when I remember to do so.  Anyway, many benefits have resulted, so let's give him credit.  Fewer backaches & neck problems.  Socially, I am more relaxed and less irritable.  My inner systems are happy, including the immune system.  Haven't had a cold or flu in the 2.5 yrs in spite of working/commuting in a crowded city, surrounded by coughers & sneezers.  Used to get 1 or 2 bad colds a year.  That in itself pays for my adjustments.
His office (the "adjustatorium") is a fun & happy place.  He has a great sense of humor.  You don't feel like a patient.  He's open till 7 (sometimes 7:15) M-TH eves, in a handy location.  It takes 5 minutes.  And I always grab a couple of chocolates on the way out.”     - Mary Gilbert, Mill Valley

I went to see Dr. Harte for a few reasons, the usual ones you think of for chiropractors like neck pain, but then also for fatigue, brain fog and digestion issues. That's the thing that everyone needs to know about chiropractors is that they can help you with anything, not just sore muscles.
It has been 5 weeks now and I can say that I have improved about 90%. I have more energy, I can think more clearly and I just feel good. I just noticed last night that I don't have any soreness  anywhere in my body, that was awesome. Dr. Harte is very passionate about health and helping your body to become the best it can be. He is a good partner to have in restoring your health, maintaining your health for life  and to navigate health issues. I would definitely recommend him for any health issue or "dis-ease". Oh and I also take my 19 month old to see him as well and that has been a great experience as well.  - Sondra Cleghorn, Larkspur

“Dr. Harte is amazing and he shows that through his compassion and his care. I originally saw Dr. Harte for back pain but he opened my eyes to the real world or chiropractic care. Since I began seeing Dr. Harte, my clinically diagnosed depression is gone along with my chronic headaches! I can only imagine what else is better too since my original x-rays were a mess!!!! It's so nice to be able to manage ailments the old fashion way... by letting the brain, your innate intelligence, deal with it!!! Dr. Harte helps your brain take the dis out of your ease!”  Ashley Reyna, Novato

“Have not had a ‘bad back’ since coming here, slowly the IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) is improving, range of motion has improved, general health is excellent.”  - Carol Russell, Petaluma

“I sleep like a baby now, without medication, since coming to Dr. Harte.”  - Neal Sorensen, Novato

“I have no use for my high blood pressure pills anymore, since seeing Dr. Harte. I now take only cholesterol and thyroid pills. I will not refill those prescriptions. I sleep well now.”  - Neil Sorensen, Novato

“I have more vitality. I’ve ceased meds for osteoporosis (Fosamax), and cut down on Synthroid (thyroid).  – Heather Andrew, Novato

“I get much better sleep. I get over illnesses much faster, and I don’t get sick as much. I do notice a better memory. Overall, much improved sense of well-being.” – Emily Judd, Mill Valley

Go... now... to the site, or better, just call me at (415)460-6527.

Don Harte, D.C.

Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor

Want more to get a better idea of experiences here? Time to find out how this works, how the practice works, and what I can do for you to change your life for the better!

#100: "Is Chiropractic good for...?"

I cannot count the number of times that I have been asked "Is Chiropractic good for arthritis/ rotator cuff/ herniated disks/ stenosis/ hormonal problems/ asthma/ migraines/ thyroid problems/ digestive issues... ?"

The answer... to all of these... is that Chiropractic is "good for" everything because it is not specifically for anything. Huh? Yes, I know that this runs counter to how you've been trained by our crazy allopathic ("against disease" or medically-oriented) society... led by the much vaunted institution known as Modern Medicine.

Here's the big difference between THEM and US. They, Medicine, diagnose and treat. In other words, they name your disease or condition, and attack it, or often just manage it. They may sometimes look for triggering factors (like doughnuts with diabetes, or smoking with emphasema or lung cancer), but they do not look at the underlying cause.

Specific? Medicine has gotten more and more specific over the years, with the rise of specialists. But remember what Dr. BJ Palmer said: "The specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less." Everyone goes home with a shiny diagnosis that allegedly explains everything, including, often, that this requires a lifetime of drugs for management, and it will get worse over time. In the more neurotic, that diagnosis comes with bragging rights. (Being from New York, I really know about this.)

With the specificity of Medicine comes a certain feeling of comfort, figuring that the Doctor really KNOWS.

Why is the chiropractor smarter than the M.D.? Because the chiropractor knows what he or she DOESN'T KNOW. The chiropractor knows that your Innate Intelligence KNOWS more than all of the doctors of all kinds put together. It is the force that united sperm with egg. From one cell, you multiplied and multiplied, and differentiated and grew into a baby, then into an adult consisting of between 25 and 40 quadrillion cells, all perfectly formed and functioning... unless there is interference.

Vertebral Subluxation Complex is interference to your Innate Intelligence expressing itself fully. Chiropractic adjustments correct Vertebral Subluxation Complex. You Innate is then free to "diagnose" and to "treat," far more skillfully, far more accurately, than the best specialists.

So, if you come in with diabetes, I will not treat you diabetes, or your pancreas. I correct interference, and get out of the way. Same thing with sciatica. Same thing with depression. Or a bad hip. Therefore, chiropractors neither diagnose nor treat.

No matter what you "have," no matter what your health condition is, no matter your age, you will be better off with less Vertebral Subluxation Complex... less interference, than more. Under Chiropractic care, you will express more life, more potential.

So, what is Chiropractic "good for?" Life!

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

Popularly Accepted

"The problem with common sense is that it's not that common."  - Mark Twain

Here's ample proof. Here's crazy stuff... talk about health and disease, that you have heard people say innumerable times. Maybe even you?

"Well, everybody knows that...
"... there's nothing anyone can do for XYZ disease/condition."
"... once you have hypertension/diabetes/gout/depression, you have to take ABC drug for life."
"... you really can't help anyone my age."
"... MY doctor knows what's best for me."
"... MY specialist has done all of the latest tests."
"... My specialist is a top man/woman... the best at Stanford/UCSF..."
"... Modern Medicine really knows everything about health, and what They don't know, They will find out soon."
"... chiropractors aren't really doctors."
"... chiropractors are quacks."

As to the last one, that's why I keep my one-eyed Pennsylvania duck in the front. Hey, if I'm a quack because my profession isn't responsible for millions of side effects and hundreds of thousands of deaths a year, so be it.

What is "popularly accepted" often has no bearing to truth or reality. Look back on the truly absurd history of Medicine. Very recently, drugs like Vioxx and Avandia were all the rage. Now, they're the rage for class action attorneys working for the families of victims. Lobotomies... insulin shock... drugs of mercury and arsenic. Back in 16th century England, MD's diagnosed by astrology. The cure, then, for any ailment of the eyes was to blow desicated dog dung into the eyes.

Funny, since 1895, Chiropractic hasn't really changed. It is still based upon correcting interference to the nervous system, to the expression of Innate Intelligence, in the form of Vertebral Subluxation. Why not much change? Chiropractic is based upon biological law, which does not change.

It is time for Chiropractic to be popularly accepted, and the faddism, the dangers, the foolishness of Medicine to be questioned.

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

"Heart Attacks, Strokes and Death Right for You?"

Ever listen, I mean really listen, to those drug ads? The listing of side effects is always accompanied by nice music and happy, healthy-looking people. Why? They, Big Pharma, are fulfilling legal obligations, seeming to look responsible, while psychologically neutering the bad feelings with good feelings. Very sophisticated. And very sleazy.

All these ads end with "Ask your doctor is Srcungax is right for you." As if your doctor really understands the biochemical pathways of the drug, and the risks involved. If you are taking multiple drugs, there is no way that your doctor can ever appreciate the interaction of those drugs in you. It is, essentially, unknowable. So this is not science. This is Las Vegas time.

Instead of taking drugs to cover up signs or symptoms, why not get to the cause? Chiropractic adjustments correct Vertebral Subluxation, interference to your nervous system, allowing your body to heal, and to function properly.

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

Corte Madera Chiropractor Accepts the Challenge: "Dangerousness" and Chiropractic?

No, I am not talking about the stupid myth that Chiropractic is dangerous. If you want my take on that, check out the op ed I wrote in the SF Chronicle on that. (For other articles... )

There is a courageous man in Cuba, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet. No, he is not a chiropractor. He is a medical doctor. Courageous because he is a REAL freedom fighter. He stands up against Castro. He has been jailed many times, beaten, tortured. He received the Presidential medal of Freedom in 2007, though, obviously, he was unable to attend the reception.

In totalitarian regimes, charges are often deliberately vague. Kinda like my experience with the chiropractic Board. (No, I wouldn't dream of saying that my courage is anywhere near that of Dr.  Biscet's.)

The charge against Dr. Biscet? "Dangerousness." Let that sink in. Dangerousness. Yes, the very idea of freedom is dangerous to a totalitarian regime. How can one defend (if that were even possible) against such a nebulous charge?

I full understand that, underlying all of the nonsense that Chiropractic, as a profession, must endure is the charge of "dangerousness." Yet here it is more subtle. It is a charge pronounced by the powers that be, who I call the PMG (Pharmaceutical-Medical-Governmental) Complex. It is a charge that is taken up by society at large, just regular folks, because they have this deep-down feeling that "They"... those in authority, certainly "scientific" authority, KNOW.

Chiropractic is, indeed, "dangerous" to the commonly swallowed belief that the body is just a stupid piece of red meat surrounded by skin and hair, tand hat it needs the near-continual help of Medicine. Look down deeper, and that boils down to the absolutely psychotic belief that we are born with a deficiency of drugs and an excess of organs.

Against this, it is "dangerous" to suggest that the Power that made the body heals the body, that the only real healing is from Above-down, Inside-out. "Dangerous" because Chiropractic is, clearly, not part of Medicine. It is a whole 'nother universe.

Chiropractic is "dangerous" because, when it becomes properly and widely understood and utilized, the whole PMG Complex will come crashing down, beginning with the vaccine manufacturers... the makers of the Holy Water of the PMG Religion.

When They see people coming to me and other straight chiropractors (the simple pain relief guys do not count) adjusting people on a wellness, non-therapeutic basis, and these people are getting well from diseases that cannot be "cured," and they are dumping their drugs that they allegedly needed for the rest of their lives, and they are no longer in need of proposed surgeries, and they no longer line up their kids for the Holy Water...

Come along with me. Stand against the rule of the PMG Complex. Stand with me for health, from Above-down, Inside-out.

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

Orthopedists' Stupid Tricks: Cortisone Shots to the Knee

"Primum nocerum." That's Latin for "Do no harm." This is considered to be the primary dictum for medical doctors, written by the Old Man himself, Hippocrates. (He was, of course Greek. Why the expression is known to us in Latin, I dunno.)

"Corticosteroid therapy is the refuge of the destitute." This is in the introduction to a classic medical textbook, Boyd's Pathology. This is a medical doctor talking to, writing to medical doctors and students. What it means is that the doctor pull out the cortisone when he's got nothin."

The topic today is corticosteroid injections of joints, a common procedure of orthopedists.

Yesterday, I was talking to one of my favorite practice members about the very sad state of his knee. The knee joint was subluxated for years, as was the nerve supply the the knee, above and below, and the nerve supply for posture, coordination, balance, etc. That much is commonplace. What puts him, and his knee, in a very bad way is that he has had several cortisone shots there. Disastrous!

I explained that this kind of treatment, shots to the knee, or the hip, or the spine, etc., may be a good deal if one is planning to die in a few months. HUH? Well, often the shots "work," they kill the pain. How? Cortisone and related compounds are the most potent of the anti-inflammatories. Since inflammation is the most common cause of joint pain, get rid of the inflammation, you get rid of the pain, sometimes even completely, sometimes for several months.

So what's the problem? Inflammation, like every other symptom, is the body's effort to heal itself. If you interfere with this healing, you've got big trouble. That's why Vioxx, an oral anti-inflammatory, was taken off the market because of damage to the heart and circulatory system. And that is why cortisone shots are a very bad idea. While they can sometimes offer very good relief, they leave your joint, that is already in trouble, with further damage. The more shots, the more damage.

Could they, the orthopedists, be drumming up surgery business by destroying joints?

Why not get to the cause? Bad knee? Get adjusted. Allow your body to heal. Yes it can, even if you've been told your knee is "bone-on-bone."

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

Amish, Vaccines, and Chiropractic

Autism is a difficult disorder to miss, as it is characterized by noticeably abnormal or impaired development in social interaction and communication and a markedly restricted array of activities and interests. Prevalence is now considered to be as bad as one in every 90 children born in the United States. The medical "geniuses" claim that the autism explosion is gentic in origin. This is plain stupid. How can the human genome change so drastically in a couple of generations?
 Therefore, with this devastating statistic in mind, one reporter set out to analyze the autism rates among Amish communities. Why? Because perhaps searching for autistic Amish children would reveal clues to the cause of autism ... and it did.

The Clues Come TogetherSince they have been cut off for hundreds of years from American culture and scientific progress, the Amish may have had less exposure to some new factor triggering autism in the rest of population. The likely culprit: vaccines.
Traveling to the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country in search of autistic Amish children, the reporter, based on national statistics, should have found as many as 200 children with autism in the community -- instead, he found only three, the oldest age 9 or 10. (This was a few years ago, when the prevalence was "only" one in 160.
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· The reporter was unable to determine the vaccination status of the third child. The second autistic Amish child definitely had received a vaccination and developed autism shortly thereafter. The first autistic Amish child was a girl who had been brought over from China, adopted by one family only to be given up after becoming overwhelmed by her autism, and then re-adopted by an Amish Mennonite family. (China, India and Indonesia are among countries moving fast to mass-vaccination programs.) Dangerous Effects of ThimerosalIn many vaccines, they use a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal that keeps multiple-dose vials from becoming contaminated by repeated needle sticks. After health officials became concerned about the amount of mercury infants and children were receiving through thimerosal-tainted vaccines, the toxin was phased out of U.S. vaccines starting in 1999. Well, that was the story.

Now, it's being phased back in. (Is anyone looking?)

When you look for health from the outside, you will be disappointed, maybe devastated. Chiropractic is a whole different thing. We recognize that health is from Above-down, Inside-out.

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

Health Fascism in Massachusetts

Friday, the Health Nazis won a major victory.

A mother of an autistic boy, dying of cancer, decided that enough was enough with his chemotherapy. Her son died in 2009. She was convicted of attempted murder, and other lesser charges, and sentenced to prison last Friday.

What of other parents who consent to medical treatment that kills their children? Should they be accused of attempted murder? What about the doctors involved?

The Health Nazis will explain that its for the good of the child. Yes, Big Brother always acts for our benefit, doesn't he? Just like he mandates vaccinations for children that are clearly neurotoxic, that are clearly the cause of autism, Type I diabetes, juvenile arthritis, asthma and a host of other disorders on an epidemic level.

Who is Big Brother and the Health Nazis? They represent a false science, fueled by the blood-stained billions of Big Pharma, which have bought both parties. They represent the belief that government knows what's good for you and for your children. Last Friday's barbaric verdict makes it plain that They will do anything to enforce their pseudo-science.

Where is choice? Actually, I prefer the old-fashioned word... liberty. Where is liberty?

Stand up and say "No!" I've been spitting in the eye of medical and pseudo-chiropractic fascism for a long time.

Who is John Galt?

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

Medicine, Chiropractic and Ham

"We have, over the years, given credit where credit is not due. We have credited the so-called wonder drug of today, ultimately to be taken off the market, either because of its dreadful side effects, or its disappointing results. The wonder drugs of yesterday have actually become the blunder drugs of today and, as a result, new diseases, termed iatrogenic or diseases produced by drugs, have been encountered by man.

Now, we have not only the original disease process to deal with, but the consequences of the drug used against it. We give credit for healing to outside factors, which, in fact, have not been established as valid or effective. I like to think of the analogy where an individual cuts himself and runs to the nearest medical doctor. The doctor attends the injury by first cleansing it with antiseptic, shoots the body full of an antibiotic for the prevention of a possible infection, wraps the injury in sterile gauze, and the patient is told to come back in a week's time.. Sure enough, after one week, the sterile bandages are removed and the lesion is healed. In turn, we are very grateful for the antibiotic, antiseptics and the sterile bandages.

May I suggest that you take a piece of meat out of the refrigerator, put a cut into it with a knife, then cleanse it with antiseptics, shoot it with antibiotics and wrap it in sterile gauze and bandages and put it away for a week's time. You will be surprised to find that no healing took place, and the cut is still quite obvious. As amusing as this analogy may seem, you may say that it is totally absurd that a piece of meat could possibly heal because it is dead. This is the very point. It is life that heals. There is no known antibiotic, no known drug, no known outside force or factor that ever healed. Only this thing called life has the ability and power to heal and cure. As a matter of fact, the only thing man ever cured was a ham!"
 

Frank DeGiacomo, D.C.

(My philosophy professor at New York Chiropractic College)

I was taught this in 1977. It is as true, or truer, now.

What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.

Marin Straight Chiropractor

SF Chronicle Chronicles Medical Kidney Failure

Did you see Saturday's Chronicle? Right on the front page was the bragging of some sort of medical milestone, in which California Pacific medical center performed five kidney transplants in one day. They are quite proud of this. They should be ashamed. Here's why...

Kidney transplants are done when the kidney is basically shot... kaput... non-functioning... dead. Ever wonder why kidneys, in so many people, fail? What does the kidney do? It filters the blood of toxins and maintains proper salt balance of the blood. What if the kidneys are overloaded, dramatically, for years? What if that overload is iatrogenic (physician-caused)? Drugs are not food; they are foreign substances, toxic to varying degrees, that are, for the most part, "cleared" by the kidneys. Many drugs are directly nephro-toxic... poisonous to the kidneys. Look it up. Look up the drugs you are taking month after month, year after year.

Then, there is actual kidney malfunction, leading to disease, and, sometimes, to failure. Medicine does not look to the CAUSE of kidney malfunction; Chiropractic always looks to the CAUSE. The kidneys, like every other part of the body, are run by the brain and the nervous system. If there is interference to this control and coordination (Vertebral Subluxation Complex) then function can no longer be normal. This dis-ease can lead to disease and, eventually failure. Why not adjust the cause? Why not?

As to all those drugs that you are taking for years, you may be wondering now if YOUR kidneys are at risk. But you wonder, "What else can I do" for whichever diseases/conditions that you may have. Again, seek to have the cause corrected. Get adjusted.

Oh, one more thought... For a transplanted kidney, or any other transplanted organ, to not be rejected, the patient is given immunosuppressant drugs. That means that their immune system will be suppressed, from then on. Does that sound healthy?

Whay do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

Lyrica Lies and Fibromyalgia

Sometimes, I just cannot stand the lies and distortion of the Accepted Ones... Medicine. The billions of dollars of drug ads on TV really stands out.

Lyrica has been advertising a lot. It is a drug for an ill-defined disease called fibromyalgia. (It is also prescribed for diabetic neuropathy.) Very real suffering, sometimes terrible suffering and disability, but ill-defined. Want to konw what the word "fibromyalgia" means? "Fibro" is connectice tissue. "My" is muscle. And "algia" is pain. Basically, it means that everything hurts.

Lyrica comes along with this ad, featuring this woman saying that she "discovered that muscles are attached to nerves, which may become overactive." News flash: The doctor who provided her discovery (really, the highly-paid copywriter of the ad) should know that everything is connected to nerves. Certainly every chiropractor knows this. Yes, the message delivered by a nerve may become hyper, but this is not a disease. This is Vertebral Subluxation Complex. Interference from misalligned, malfunctioning joints in the spine can and do cause nerves to become hyperactive. Why not adjust the cause? Why not?

Or, if you are reckless, you can take Lyrica. The ad ad does caution you to be watchful of suicidal thoughts. There are a whole bunch of side effects. Here are the ones for which you are advised to call your doctor immediately:

• blurred vision, double vision, or other changes in eyesight
• hives
• rash
• itching
• blisters
• swelling of the eyes face, throat, mouth, lips, gums, tongue, head or neck
• shortness of breath
• wheezing
• muscle pain, tenderness, soreness, or weakness, especially if it comes along with fever
• chest pain

Again, why not adjust the cause?

What do you think?

Know anyone with fibromyalgia or diabettic neuropathy? It is time that you got them in here to get checked.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

Neurosurgeon's Orgy

One of my most dinstinguished and cherished Practice Members brought me in an article (3/29/11) from the Wall Street Journal: "Medicare Records Reveal Troubling Trail of Surgeries." One of his more abused patients has had six surgeries, and finally turned down #7.

The story is mostly devoted to a neurosurgeon in Texas who, habitually, does multiple spinal fusions, in a short period of time, on many of his patients. The article highlights some of the resulting suffering that this has caused. It was my impression that the underlying implication is that the government should more closely monitor what doctors are doing. But, on other fronts (not a subject of this article), there are legislative moves to limit medical malpractice.

With the exceptions of unstable fracture, some cases of invasive bone cancer, and some severe cases of infection, spinal surgery, and certainly spinal fusion, is an unnecessary, barbaric procedure.

That's right, I said "barbaric." People are cut open, exposed to the very significant dangers of anesthesia reaction and nocosomial (from the hospital) infection, parts of bone and disk cut out and sometimes weird surgical devices put in, with tools that you would expect in a (rough) carpentry shop.

Results? Almost everyone who undergoes spinal surgeries, and especially fusions, get worse, often terribly worse. This, of course, is the "in" for further surgeries. I knew a man in his 40's who had had eleven (11) spinal surgeries. His life was a wretched haze of drugs and pain.

Have you been threatened with spinal surgery, or know someone who has? Despite the medical "facts" presented to you, despite the wagging of the Medical Voodoo Finger, have the common sense to say "No!"

Continuing with common sense, it is time to get checked for Vertebral Subluxation Complex. (No the neurosurgeon doesn't know what that is, and, for sure, cannot do anything about it.

What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

Half of all Alzheimer’s patients don’t really have the disease

Once again, Medicine is making mistakes on a breath-taking scale. Yet, many of you still trust Them. When will you get it that They don't get it???

New research shows that Alzheimer’s disease and other dementing illnesses are often misdiagnosed in the elderly, leading to incorrect treatment and medications.
That is the conclusion of a study released on Feb. 23 and will be presented as part of a plenary session at the American Academy of Neurology’s Annual Meeting in April.
“Diagnosing specific dementias in people who are very old is complex, but with the large increase in dementia cases expected within the next 10 years in the United States, it will be increasingly important to correctly recognize, diagnose, prevent and treat age-related cognitive decline,” said study author Lon White, MD, MPH, with the Kuakini Medical System in Honolulu.

Read more...

Why not check in with the REAL excperts in the brain and the nervous system?

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

Health Care: Are you able to think critically... really?

 

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

 -Dr. Albert Einstein

" I once read that near the end of the war, a ship set sail for the United States with a group of German prisoners of war on board. These were no ordinary prisoners, but members of the high command of the Third Reich. They were being brought to the US for interrogation. Near the end of their voyage, they were given a fine meal, and they began sneering at the Americans for giving them this food. The Americans could not understand why their generosity was regarded with such contempt. The Germans then said that they knew the Americans did not have an abundance of food sufficient to give them such a meal, and that obviously the Americans must be patronizing them because the roles of captor and captive would soon be reversed. The Americans insisted they were wrong, but the Germans wouldn't hear of it. Finally, an American officer said, "All right, you can see for yourself, when we pull into New York harbor tomorrow".

    "Never!" they cried. "You will never pull into New York harbor. We have seen pictures of your city in ruins, and you will never let us see this destruction". It turned out that in Berlin, they had been shown photographs of what were supposed to be the bombed ruins of New York City. The Germans openly laughed at the Americans, who insisted that the city had never been bombed.

    As promised, the ship approached New York City the next day, and as it pulled into the harbor, the Germans looked at the city with wonder and disbelief. One of the Americans, satisfied that the Germans must finally recognize that they had been victims of misinformation, asked, "Well, what do you think of your Dr. Goebbels now?"

    Puzzled by the question, the Germans looked at the American, and one of them asked, "We don't understand. What does Dr. Goebbels have to do with this?"

    The American officer replied, in exasperation, "Then why are you all staring at the skyline with such disbelief and amazement?"

    Another of the Germans answered, "American ingenuity, that they could rebuild this city so quickly".

    The Germans were so well programmed that they couldn't see a truth as large as New York City. Were they stupid? Not at all. They were intelligent people, but they had been so completely programmed that their brains refused to recognize the truth, even though it should have been painfully obvious to them.       

A question for you: How well-programmed are you about Medicine, about Chiropractic, about other health care issues? How many things do you think you “know,” things that may really just strongly held opinions that you were programmed to have?

Something to think about. "What everybody knows," what you "always knew," may have little to no validity. This is worth thinking about. Your life, or the life of a loved one, may depend upon it.

Don Harte, D.C.

Marin Straight Chiropractor

Chiropractors Gone Wild

Chiropractors gone wild. Wild and crazy... in a very bad way. So bad that they are a disgrace to their profession and a threat to public health.

Half-way through the New Mexico state legislature is a new law establishing a new class of "advanced" chiropractors able to prescribe medication.

People who have no idea what Chiropractic is about, and who have the typical racist views of Chiropractic and chiropractors, will sometimes put chiropractors down by such remarks as "they can't even prescribe medication." After this comes the inevitable "They didn't go to medical school, and they aren't even real doctors!" Do dentists go to medical school? Podiatrists? Engineers? Physicists?

Who are the real doctors? Something to think about.

Why would a chiropractor ever want to prescribe medication? This would only be a chiropractor of such grotesquely low self-esteem, and esteem of his or her own profession, that there would be no real understanding of what Chiropractic actually is. If its purpose was to alleviate pain (which it is clearly not), then pain-relieving medications would be in order.

What is Chiropractic? It is the detection, analysis and correction of vertebral subluxation, allowing the body to heal, and to function at a higher level of wellness. Now, if someone could demonstrate to me that the human body was created with a deficiency of drugs, and an oversupply of organs, I might want to return to medical school. Don't hold your breath!

The fact is, chiropractors should have zero desire to prescribe medication. Those who do, are ignorant of Chiropractic's purpose, and probably incompetant in the art of Chiropractic, the chiropractic adjustment.

Then there is the public health issue. OK, these "advanced" New Mexico chiropractors my be getting a few weeks training in pharmacology. That is nothing compared to what one would receive in medical school, internship and residency. MD's already make millions of drug errors, probably hundreds of thousands having terminal consequences. How do a bunch of misguided, incompetant chiropractors come off to jump into this very dangerous pool? This is nuts!

Why would you want to get a prescription from a chiropractor? Why would you want to get an adjustment from an MD?

Let this New Mexico insanity be a lesson. Do you go to a chiropractor who is doing 47 different New Age and/or physical therapy things, never taught you about Innate Intelligence, Vertebral Subluxation, etc., never did X-rays and neurological scans nor put you on a plan of care, and can't even adjust you, who uses some weird device to vibrate your spine?

Do not expect the government to protect you, or to assure competance in any way, let alone excellence? Don't be so naive. Think for yourself. Choose straight (real), serious Chiropractic for you and your family.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

The Pain of Pain Management

The 3/7 special health issue of Time Magazine writes about thes horrendous cases of pain. Sad. And sadder still is the idiotic standard medical response, lapped up by the uninformed masses.

The Time article is truly breatth-taking in its absurdity, if you read it, and then stop and think about it. With a few exceptions (like cases of amputated limbs), these are all cases of grotesque medical failure. In one case, apparently the woman with "thirteen degenerated disks" went to a chiropractor who "couldn't find anything that was misalligned. If true, this chiropractor should have his or her license and "D.C." diploma put into a shredder. Degenerated disks, part of what They refer to as "degenerative disk disease," what the chiropractor more properly refers to as subluxation degeneration, are the direct result of years and decades of serious vertebral subluxation. If a chiropractor cannot find vertebral subluxation, well, that's as crazy as a cardiologist who can't find the heart. Back to my point. Sorry I got sidetracked.

You have all these cases that Medicine, in all of its alleged scientific/technological majesty, cannot help. So, they make stronger and stronger pain medications, and then devise ways to actually fool the brain into not feeling the pain. STUPID! This is as stupid as putting a piece of duct tape over the oil light in your car's dashboard, instead of adding oil. One of the devices, magnets on te head, look like some weird thing at a New Age fair. Why not get to the cause? Yes, I know, they can't.

What damage will these pain medications do to the liver, kidneys, etc., over the years? We already know that anti-inflammatories can put a hole in your stomoach, or damage your heart to the point of death.

What damage will these electrical devices, whether aimed at the brain or the spinal cord, do to the overall neurological function? Well, if MD's cared that much about this question, they'd go back to school to become chiropractors.

Chiropractic does NOT treat pain, back or neck or otherwise. Its purpose is to correct interference to the functioning of the nervous system (the Master System), Vertebral Subluxation, allowing the body to heal.

What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

Chronic Disease and Chiropractic

Let's begin with the really sad stuff. Many chiropractors, debasing themselves to the level of third-rate medical back doctors, have nothing to do with chronic disease. If they want to get exotic, they'll treat headaches. Of course, a real (straight) chiropractor doesn't "treat" anything. He or she removes interference, allowing the body to heal.

There is so much chronic disease today.... diabetes, heart disease, prostate problems, asthma, depression, low thyroid, neurodegenerative diseases, fibromyalgia... Medical patients are told "learn to live with it, and take these pills forever."

What if you could do better? Just considering that is a stretch for many people. Well, people do "better" here all the time. Remove interference, and all is possible.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

"Can Psychiatry be a Science?"

Like the headline? It is the sub-headline of an article from last year in "The New Yorker," called "Head Case." A lot of good insights as to the gross non-specificity, the gross subjectivity, of psychiatry. Speaking of good insights (if you are a Practice Member), when was the last time you took a look at the pile of great magazine articles (of which this is one) and scientific articles in the reception room? How about the stuff on the walls? Where else are you going to find this sort of thing?

Read the article. Some good historical perspective, and some serious questioning of both the pill camp and the talk camp.

Let me simplify. All mental problems take place in the mind, which is in the brain. (Technically, the part of the brain called the limbic system, involved with emotional states, goes beyond the brian, down the cord, to approximately the level of the 6th thoracic vertebra.) The brain... the nervous system... this is what I do as a straight chiropractor.

You having mental problems or challenges? How many people do you know having these sorts of problems, icluding children? How many of these poor folks are taking dangerous anti-depressants, anxioloytics, sedatives, anti-convulsants and/or anti-psychotics, and would like to get off the junk? Get them on the phone to me today.

Do I treat mental illness? No. I seek to correct Cause... Vertebral Subluxation, allowing body and mind to heal.

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

Marin Neurologists? What? Why? The Marin IJ?

Looking for something on the net today, I came across "Neurologists reject claim in Novato Stroke." It was listed in the Marin Independent Journal, February 8th, 2011.

Hmmm. Sound interesting. So, I clicked on it: what came up on the IJ site was:

Thank you for visiting Marin Independent Journal. We are sorry the article that you requested is no longer available. Please search for this article in our archive search.

So, I went to the archives, and nothing was there. Sounds like a scene taking place at the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's classic novel, 1984. I wonder what is going on? Another case of iatrogenic (physician-caused) death? Hey, a recent article in US News and World Report put that figure at 180,000 deaths, annually (USA). Which is 180,000 deaths more than from Chiropractic (zero deaths).

To whom do you put your trust in? THINK!

I've always said that neurologists are the most impotent of all of the medical specialties, and that, if they truly understood the nervous system, they would go back to school and become chiropractors.

What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.

Marin Straight Chiropractor

Liberator of Innate