Corte Madera Chiropractor Talks "Anti-Aging"

I usually shy away from vague, often misused and over-marketed terms like "anti-aging." It is often applied to various make-up "miracles," dubious herbal treatment and potentially dangerous injections of HGH (human growth hormone). But... the term seems to be a perfect fit for what I have in mind.

For those of you who are not yet Practice Members, I should place the discussion that I will be discussing. Unlike "normal" offices, with separate rooms, I have an open adjusting room, which we call the Adjustatorium. Way better adjustments. Way more fun!

So, a couple of weeks ago, a Practice Member whose been coming, on wellness care, since 1987, comes into the Adjustatorium and sits down on the bench. I remarked that he had a birthday coming up. Just to harass him in a friendly way, I asked if it was his 100th birthday. He said, "No, I'm 70." Everyone remarked how well he looked for 70. Very true; they weren't just being polite, they were being truthful. Then, a woman on one of the chiropractic tables says "I'm 50." Same thing. Then we all got to talking about all the older people in the practice who look so much younger, and are so much healthier than their peers. For the most part, little to no drugs, very few doctor visits, very active. So many people over the years "out of the norm"... looking good, feeling good, actually BEING healthy, because their vertebral subluxations are corrected regularly. A healthy nervous system, with less interference, makes for a healthier individual. Biological common sense.

I mentioned one of the Practice Members, very up in her years. Sometimes, she misses her weekly wellness visit. When she does, she gets wobbly, physically and mentally, and if she goes more than two weeks without an adjustment, her skins becomes yellow. But when she is like this from falling behind, and then she gets adjusted, it is amazing how fast she gets back to her chiropractic normal. Of course,, for her age, the medical normal would be wobbly and yellow.

As you get older, so do your vertebral subluxations, and consequently, your subluxation degeneration (what other people might call spinal arthritis). The effects of a compromised nervous system (THE system that runs every other system) usually become apparent with age, whether it be heart disease, urinary problems, constipation, vertigo, bad knees or hips, fatigue, insomnia, arthritis, diabetes, circulatory problems, loss of mental clarity, respiratory issues, etc. Getting real (straight) chiropractic care allows your body to heal, to improve functioning.

In "Medical Land," this is impossible. You're told "Learn to live with it. You're getting old." You are trained not to expect any better... ever. Yet, older people have come to me over the last thirty years, and gotten well, often cutting down or totally dumping their meds, from conditions that they were led to believe were permanent.

You can be a sheep and follow the medical rules, or you can come and get checked, to see how I can help you, no matter how old or how sick you are. You CAN do better!

Be Well,
Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

#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