The ALWAYS SICK Child by Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte

Does it seem like you’re always at the pediatrician’s? Is your child sick almost constantly… colds, flu, earaches, sore throats?

I understand. That was me as a child, back in the 50’s. I’d get colds that just about ran into one another, most of the year. I’d get terrible earaches, once so bad that I thought that I was going to die. I remember asking my mother to bring me my pet turtle, “Mickey,” so I could say goodbye to him. I had bad digestion, from top to bottom. I was taken to one gastro-enterologist after another, and had many, many “G-I” X-ray series. (It’s a wonder I’m not dead from all of that very serious radiation exposure.)

Strep throat was the most constant of my childhood sicknesses. My mother took me to the doctor. I took the antibiotics, the strep throat went away, and then it came back in a week or two.

Tonsils used to be the culprit, but that operation has been discredited. Then came the tubes in the ears. That has fallen by the wayside too. Popular antibiotics come and go, getting ever stronger and more risky as the years go by. I know. You’re told that they are safe and effective. Better look them up yourself.

I’ve looked on the net to see the latest that the pediatricians have to offer, at least as an explanation. It’s the same old stuff… wash your hands, and “germs are everywhere.” OK, it’s good to wash your hands, but not overly so. All these germicidal soaps end up producing more dangerous bacteria, and some are suspected of being carcinogenic. You are your kids do not need more weird chemicals in your environment.

I’ve seen a lot of natural remedies talked about on various blogs, to help kids who are always sick. Most if not all are safer than antibiotics, but they are not the answer. Why? They are remedies… treatments. They are designed to “stimulate” or “support” the immune system. What about if a child’s immune system is over-stimulated? Then you get into auto-immune diseases like asthma, Type I diabetes, eczema, etc. So, what to do?

Your “always sick” child needs to get checked for vertebral subluxation, interference to his or her nervous system. Why? Because the nervous system controls and coordinates every cell, tissue, organ and system in the body, and adapts that body to the environment. This includes the immune system. “Adapting to the environment?” That includes whatever “is going around.” You get your child checked for vertebral subluxation, and corrected for vertebral subluxation, by a straight chiropractor. (A straight chiropractor is the real thing, from both a historical and philosophical basis. He or she is not concerned with back pain. He or she is concerned with the body expressing as much life force as possible.)

Bottom line? Kids that come to see me barely ever get sick. When my son was in grade school and everybody else had colds, flu, coughing, sneezing, he wouldn’t get sick. At worst, he’d feel a little off and say “Daddy, please adjust me.” Twenty minutes later he’d be better.

Chiropractic does not fight disease. It allows the body to express more health, more life.

Don Harte, D.C.

Marin Straight Chiropractor

Liberator of Innate

One Drug Leads to Another, says Corte Madera Chiropractor Dr Harte

I know someone who is currently suffering from antibiotic-resistant pneumonia. There's been more and more talk in scientific circles about this problem. This is a monster created in the Castle of Medicine.

Medicine, with its innate arrogance, always wants to fool Mother Nature. This is foolish. We are accustomed to the idea that we big animals evolve. What we forget is that the tiniest organisms, like bacteria, evolve, too. Because of their rapid rate of reproduction, they evolve infinitely faster than we do. In her 1995 book, The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett postulated that because of our abuse of antibiotics, we have advanced microbial evolution by three million years. Now, we see the sad, sometimes fatal results.

Any relevant history to this person with pneumonia? Sure. She has asthma, and is being treated with corticosteroids, which suppress the immune system.

Isn't it simpler, safer, SANER, to get adjusted, allowing your body to heal, to function normally?

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

Dr Harte: Making a Healthy Marin Sick

I just sent this as an op ed to the Marin IJ:

TRYING TO MAKE A HEALTHY MARIN SICK?

The recent column by Jason Eberhart-Phillips, M.D., Marin’s Public Health Officer (“To Parents who skip kids’ vaccinations”), condemns, even belittles Marin parents who dare think for themselves, and act in the best interests of their children (as opposed to the interests of the State). It is the medical party line, more representative of a state religion rather than science. His comments are girded by his certainty that the State knows better than the parent, and that the State has the right, or should have the right, to force whatever medical measures they choose upon children, and, indeed, adults. The party line is even reflected in IJ headlines. The second page headline (for the article in question) is “Taking chances,” alluding that non-vaccinating parents are not responsible. Back in September, when I faced off against Dr. Eberhart-Phillips at the Marin Board of Supervisors meeting, the headline was “County: Students should have inoculation chance.” That was never the issue. Kids should have a chance at real health, which does not come from the artificially-induced, abnormal  immune responses that vaccinations produce.

The issue here is vaccination, and the numbers/percentages of parents who utilize the “personal belief exemption,” or PBE, which Dr. Eberhart-Phillips decries. Statewide, the PBE rate for incoming kindergarteners is now 2.3%. Marin has the highest rate of health sanity, of PBE, of 7.2%. So, Marin parents are way ahead of the curve, seeing the limitations and the dangers of serial vaccination. Here, a growing number of parents are open enough to see past the medical party line, and willing to buck authority in order to protect the health of their children. It is the children who get vaccinated who are truly at risk.

Vaccination, especially serial vaccination (up to 71 vaccinations before kindergarten), causes a state of chronic inflammation, often in the brain where it is referred to as encephalitis (often low-level.) While some may still assume that vaccination is scientific, safe and effective, we have seen the health of children devastated in the last two generations. Autism, various learning disabilities, Type I diabetes, juvenile arthritis, asthma… once rare, have become commonplace. The ONLY thing that has changed in those two generations is that the number of vaccinations has increased several-fold. Besides questionable biological material, vaccines contains a witch’s brew of known toxic substances… aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, latex, phenoxyethanol (anti-freeze), glutaraldehyde… Many of these substances are directly neurotoxic, so why is it so hard to figure out the autism connection? What about sub-clinical physical and mental losses? You still think that vaccination is scientific? What can possibly be scientific, or logical, or even reasonable, about poisoning children to get them healthy?

We all have immune systems, which receive control and coordination from the nervous system. Chiropractors appreciate that health only comes from the inside-out. Correct interference to the control and coordination of the body by the nervous system, and the body becomes healthier. This is different, and far superior to fighting, or even preventing disease. The fact that more parents in Marin are saying “no” to Big Brother in a White Coat,” rejecting serial vaccination, is a cause for joy. Some even have sense enough to bring their kids in for regular wellness chiropractic care. Maybe Dr. Eberhart-Phillips would like to regulate that, too.

A long time ago, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “If people let government decide what foods to eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”

 Don Harte, D.C.

Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor

One of Dr. Harte's San Rafael Practice Members

“Dr. Harte is very personable and answered all my questions about chiropractic healing at our first consultation. Dr. Harte relieved any concerns/fears I had in mind from previous chiropractic adjustments that made me run for the hills. My first adjustment was easy and I felt a dramatic difference within weeks. I have made a conscious effort to change how I deal with stress and feel great about working with Dr. Harte to improve my overall health. I have felt a positive surge with my TMJ, digestive issues, prolonged respiratory concerns, and mental stamina. Dr. Harte is very gentle when adjusting areas of my body that are subluxated and pays close attention to subtle changes in my body, which I love about people in general, especially when you're placing a small amount of trust in them when it comes to your health and well-being. Dr. Harte is always up-beat and enthusiastic when you see him. It beams through him that he really loves what he does. 

”I highly recommend Dr. Harte”  - Trish Washburn, San Rafael

You, too, can express health on a higher level. Health only comes from Above-down, Inside-out.

Don Harte, D.C.

Marin Straight Chiropractor

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

Racism at KGO Radio, Marin Chiropractor Says

Yesterday, I was invited to be interviewed on the Gil Gross Show, on KGO Radio (San Francisco), on the issue of the new DPT/"whooping cough" booster shot for 7th to 12th graders. Wanting to give as many parents a chance at making an informed decision, wanting parents to know that they HAVE a decision, I agreed to the interview.

This guy, Gill Gross has about as much style as Howard Stern, without the vulgar words. Ah, but his attitude is just as vulgar. He asked me, "You mean that kids should get their necks twisted instead of getting vaccinated?" I said that, for inviting a chiropractor on his show, he should at least know what Chiropractic is. (Maybe he should have visited my site?) He said that he knew what Chiropractic is, because he "tried it once." Gee, when I was five, I had my tonsils out, so I must know all about surgery.

He maintained, like all medical cultists, that there was no link between autism (and other out-of-control childhood diseases) and vaccination. He pulled out the old medical holy cow, the polio vaccine. I tried to explain to this loudmouth that infectious diseases have a natural cycle, and that polio was just about done. He kept repeating, daring me to say that it was a coincidence that polio just vanished with the vaccine. (It didn't just vanish. It was renamed "aseptic meningitis.")

Incomplete bits of media-fed information, with not a shred of scientific understanding, he railed at me that I wasn't going to win a Nobel Prize. I simply replied that he will not win one for journalism (if there is one).

The whole sad, mad approach of Gil Gross, and other mindless members of the Cult of Medicine is that Medicine is the be-all and end-all of scientific knowledge, most specifically relating to health care. Those who challenge current medical beliefs are automatically considered quacks. This is ignorant!

Science is supposed to be a constant interplay of ideas, always searching for the truth. Within the context of a diseased, drugged society, the search is for ways for Big Pharma to make more big bucks, no matter what the damage to individuals. All the while, government uses Establishment Medicine and Big Pharma to exert more control over you and me... Big Brother in a White Coat. To deny the connection of serial vaccination to the disaster that is children's health now... autism, childhood cancers, asthma, learning disabilities, diabetes, etc... is to be in absolute ignorance of epidemiology... and common sense.You cannot poison a child to health. there is no doubt that mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and anti-freeze are poisons. So, who are the quacks, really?

Attitudes typified by Gil Gross are nothing short of what I call professional racism. As in all racism, it is based upon ignorance and a gut hatred for anyone who is different.

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

Corte Madera Chiropractor Charges Medical Fascism

Today I was interviewed by a TV station about vaccination, focusing on the new requirement for a DPT booster for 7th to 12th graders. (Stay tuned for the details.)

I brought up how the personal exemption for vaccination is such a well-kept secret for parents. (Blame the State of California, and the school officials who "just follow orders.")

The reporter informed me that there is talk about changing the parameters of the personal exemption. Parents would be required to go talk to the pediatrician. I was asked what I thought. (Oooo, my "New York" came out here!) I said that "I think that this proposal is overbearing, vile and a tool for medical fascism."

How dare those arrogant bastards in Sacramento send thinking parents to the pediatrician to be confronted, belittled and threatened? Threatened? Yes. Many pediatricians these days will not accept a child in his or her practice who is not "fully vaccinated." (Yes, that means even those "semi-dissenters," those parents who opt out of some vaccinations and/or spread them out, will be expelled.) How many parents will fold, as they are terrorized by the Power of the White Coat? How many will fold just in anticipation? Yes, the medical establishment will begin to regain  their power if this craziness passes, at the expense of your children's health, and at the expense of our liberty. Yes, this is medical fascism!

So, in the end, how many more children will have their lives destroyed with autism, or even cancer? How many little lives will be severely impacted with type I diabetes, asthma, learning disabilities, juvenile arthritis...? How will their families be impacted? Society as a whole? All because of Big Brother in a White Coat.

Remember that Health does not come from the Outside-in, whether that "outside" be a vaccine or a pill or a surgeon's knife. Health only comes from Above-down, Inside-out. THAT IS WHY you need to get your children adjusted. That is why YOU need to be adjusted. Correct interference, so that you and your children will express Life more fully.

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

#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

MMPD: Marin Mercury Perceptual Disorder

As the Mercedes ad campaign, from a few years ago, went, “Perception is not always reality.” 

There is a Marin-based group, GotMercury.org, which seeks to bring forth the unthinking prejudice of people who are so quick to blame every disease on alleged environmental problems. Does there exist areas of environmental contamination that may lead to adverse health consequences? Of course. But contrary to “what is good” for environmental organizations, the environment is far cleaner now than it has been in decades. Factories are no longer dumping raw chemicals into rivers and lake, nor are they belching unlimited toxic gases from their smokestacks. The gas we put in our cars has been unleaded now for decades.

Poisoning by mercury? The most dangerous source is from that “most trusted” source, your medical doctor. GotMercury.org specifically warns children and pregnant women about mercury ingestion. Do they think… do you think… that mercury is OK if your doctor says so? They are worried about one part mercury per million in fish, which must go through processes of the digestive system. How many parts per million does a child get when he or she is taken to the pediatrician for three to five vaccinations at a time, injected directly into their little bodies? The average child now gets 71 vaccinations by kindergarten. And what about pregnant moms, that are urged to get flu shots every year, and now pertussis (whooping cough) shots? How much mercury do those developing babies get, through maternal circulation? To what ill effects?

Consider that, in the vaccines, besides the mercury and questionable biological content, there are numerous other toxins, including aluminum, formaldehyde, anti-freeze (phenoxyethanlol), latex, MSG, and beta-propriolactone. When asked about the skyrocketing rates of autism, Type I diabetes, juvenile arthritis, learning disabilities, and asthma, the “medical experts” will cite either the environment or some genetic factors. Has the human genome changed, radically in the last two generations? No. This is ridiculous.

Environmental cause? Fish? Look to the internal environmental catastrophe of mass serial vaccination. You’ve seen those fish-warning posters in restaurants? How about vaccine warning posters in pediatricians’ offices? How can M.D.’s poison you to health?

Yes, perception of health matters, even in allegedly wholistic-thinking Marin, is dysfunctional. Time to re-think health dangers, and solutions. Solutions should include your personal advancement of health, which should include proper nutrition, regular exercise, proper rest, good attitude, and a nervous system without interference (achieved through regular wellness chiropractic care).

Don Harte, D.C.

Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor

Liberator of Innate

Asthma, Immune System and Chiropractic

Have you been seeing the ad for the asthma drug, Symbicort? While it pictures these happy, breathing well people, it warns that this drug increases the chance of death from asthma. Here's some gems from the website:

• WARNING: Long-acting beta₂-adrenergic agonists (LABA), such as formoterol, one of the active ingredients in SYMBICORT, increase the risk of asthma-related death.

It is possible that systemic corticosteroid effects such as hypercorticism and adrenal suppression may occur, particularly at higher doses... Deaths due to adrenal insufficiency have occurred in asthmatic patients during and after transfer from systemic corticosteroids to less systemically available inhaled corticosteroids.
Excessive beta-adrenergic stimulation has been associated with central nervous system and cardiovascular effects. SYMBICORT, like all products containing sympathomimetic amines, should be used with caution in patients with convulsive disorders, thyrotoxicosis, and cardiovascular disorders, especially coronary insufficiency, cardiac arrhythmias, and hypertension.  As with other inhaled medications, paradoxical bronchospasm may occur with SYMBICORT. {That means that it'll make you worse.} Use with caution in patients with diabetes mellitus.
Long-term use of orally inhaled corticosteroids, such as budesonide, a component of SYMBICORT, may result in a reduction in growth velocity and/or a loss of bone mineral density. {Sure, then they can prescribe Fosamax or Boniva.}
Glaucoma, increased intraocular pressure, and cataracts have been reported following the inhaled administration of corticosteroids, including budesonide, a component of SYMBICORT.

Why not jet adjusted... correct the cause, so that the lungs and the immune system can begin to normalize?

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor

Newsweek dumps on Marin County

Want to see a prime example of medical arrogance/stupidity/cultism? Check out this week's Newsweek Magazine, page 11, "Autism and the Affluent," by Seth Mnookin.

Let's start with the story's "pull quote," "The vaccine rate has plummeted in places where people put 'Darwin fish' stickers on their hybrid cars." The story is about this guy's musings that affluent areas (as if that is something to be ashamed of) full of "degree-laden denizens (should we be ashamed of higher education?) and their obsessive approach to parenting."

Monookin, the medical cultist cites "Marin County, just north of San Francisco, is another example: it has the nation's fifth-highest average per capita income - and an exemtion rate more than three times th rest of the state." {Please forgive the weird punctuation/grammar. It appears that Newsweek's copy editors are not overly "degree-laden."}

I read about Marin's magnificent achievement in "saying no to vaccination" in the Chronicle last Spring. I take a huge amount of personal pride in this. I believe that no one has had more published on the futility and dangers of vaccination than I have. I am gratified that the people of Marin are listening, saving their children from needless iatrogenic (that means "physician-caused") poisoning, leading to many pediatric conditions that have been skyrocketing. Besides autism, check out the extremely increasing rates of type I (juvenile) diabetes, juvenile arthritis, asthma, and various learning disabilities.

When you dump a witch's brew of neurotoxins (contained in vaccines) into a child's bloodstream, what would a rational person expect... more health, or less health? HEY, NEWSWEEK, AT LEAST WE IN MARIN COUNTY CAN FIGURE THIS OUT.

I guess Newsweek must think that all of its readers are stupid. Go two more pages, and you will find a full page ad for Lovaza: "Ask your doctor about an FDA-approved medication made from omega-3 fish oil: LOVAZA." Come on! You can pick that up, in a more natural and safet form, and much cheaper, in any health food store.

What do YOU think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Liberator of Innate

PS: I wonder what this idiot of a magazine writer who have to say about Chiropractic? What would he say about "obsessive parenting" in Marin that causes parents to have the wisdom to bring in their children to be adjusted so that they can better fulfil their genetic potential? How subluxated is this guy???