Money, Medicine and Chiropractic

My home state, New York, people speak plainer, more directly, than here in California. We have a saying, "Money talks. Nobody walks."

What does this mean? It means that money. what people pay, and are willing to pay, for things and services get to the heart of the matter. Maybe this sort of discussion is not particularly polite, but it is honest... and accurate.

The "Health Care" debate rages. Nonsense on two levels. First, Medicine is NOT health care. It deals with disease and injury, not health. (Contrary to popular belief, health is NOT merely the absence of disease. It is "A state of optimal physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity," according to Dorland's Medical Dictionary.)

Secondly, the only honest business, in my opinion, is shoulder-to-shoulder trade. Introduce a third party, like insurance companies, Medicare, Medical, etc., fees skyrocket because it's "nobody's money." Corruption abounds. Check out the image of the hospital bill, below, for just a snake bite. And the trend, now, is to consider "health care" a right, which means no one pays, which means anyone and everyone who works and pays taxes gets taxed to death. And the stinking level of "health care" gets even worse.

I stopped "taking insurance" over two decades ago. People pay me, gladly, because they know that no one will work harder for them, with more passion, with true, classioc chiropractic care, than I will. Many of my wellness practice members have been with me for 10, 20, 30 years. I tell them the truth, and I deliver the truth.

The chiropractors who are still "taking insurance?" They have such little self-esteem, such little esteem in Chiropractic, and such little understanding of what Chiropractic truly is, that they cannot conceive of someone actuslly paying them, with their own money. Almost always, this leads to scams. It always leads to low quality care.

People say "There's nothing more important than your health." OK. Do you have enough sense to ac tually believe this, and to act upon this? If so, come here. Get your nervous system liberated, so that you, too, can achieve Health, from Above-down, Inside-out.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

Most Important Chiropractic Patient* by Dr Harte, Corte Madera

Understanding that real Chiropractic is about expressing Life (contrary to common belief), the answer to “who is the most important chiropractic patient” becomes obvious… the pregnant woman.

Why? Well, there is some credence to concern about the increased strain on mom’s spine involved with pregnancy. Backaches and some general discomfort during pregnancy? Sure, this is pretty common. Does chiropractic care help with this? Sure, but this is not the point of chiropractic care. It has long been noted that pregnant women under chiropractic care usually have an easier time of labor and delivery. But that, too, is not the point of Chiropractic.

What is going on inside you when you are pregnant? What is going on is nothing short of miraculous, not to be downplayed as some mundane medical process. First, there is the union of the sperm and the egg, at the exclusion of all the millions of other sperm cells. (I know that you know this part at least, but I ask you to think on it.) The one fertilized egg divides and becomes two cells. I still remember that moment, long ago in college, in embryology lab. The subject was frog eggs, since they fertilize externally, and they are big enough to be seen under a dissecting scope, which is a very low power microscope. I poured the frog sperm on the frog egg, and then I waited. That moment when one egg enlarged, and then became two… amazing!

The two cells become four, sixteen, and so on, until a point in which cells, originally identical, begin to differentiate and migrate. The first thing to develop is the primitive streak, the progenitor of the nervous system. Yes, the nervous system is there right from the beginning, to control and coordinate the development of every other system. In about nine months, without any direction from the outside (including the obstetrician), you have a perfectly formed and functioning baby, unless there is interference.

Have you figured it out yet? The reason why THE most important chiropractic patient is the pregnant woman? Well, your health determines your baby’s health, and THE #1 determinant of your health is a nervous system free of interference, allowing you to express life as close to 100% as possible.

Yes, I know, as a pregnant woman it seems like you have to suffer from advice from every quarter, even total strangers. But do take care of your nervous system. It is the most critical determinant of your health and your baby’s health.

Don Harte, D.C.

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* “Patient.” I only use the word in this post as popular usage. I do not use it in my practice, as most other straight chiropractors. The reason is that that word derives from the Latin verb “patior,” which means “to suffer.” I find that the term “practice member” is much more appropriate.

"Where to pursue health," asks Marin chiropractor Dr Harte

Where does health come from?

Does it come from fighting disease? No. Vanquishing a disease, suppressing symptoms, brings you no closer to health. in fact, the suppression of these natural processes often causes more serious problems in the future. Cause was not addressed.

Does health come from "prevention?" No. Vaccination brings about an artificial, non-normal immunity, and that's sometimes. Sometimes, it just doesn't work. At the same time, vaccination causes chronic inflammation, and dumps a terrible toxic loan into the body. Surely, you cannot poison yourself to health. Then, there is excessive, unwarranted treatment for "pre disease," such as pre-hypertension, or pre-diabetes. The treatment causes harm, bringing you further from health.

Does health come from "early detection?" Because of fiddling with "lab normals," mostly because of the influence of Big Pharma, so many previously healthy people are deemed sick, and then made truly sick by treatment. With better and better imaging technology, so much is detected that virtually everyone has abnormalities that can be construed as pathology. This is, in reality, early gathering of medical patients. This is not health.

Health is a condition of wholeness, in which all of the cells, tissues, organs and systems are working for the benefit of the whole. Should you eat well, exercise, get good rest and maintain a good attitude? You betcha.

THE most important factor in finding and maintaining health, with more improvement over the years, is lifetime wellness chiropractic care. Your own innate intelligence is freed to control and coordinate body and mind, when interference to the nervous system is corrected. Simple.

You want health/ Get adjusted.

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

Kentfield/Corte Madera Chiropractor Dr Harte Upon Hearing "There's nothing wrong with me!"

A common foolishness, that really gets under my skin, is when people say to me "There's nothing wrong with me. I'm healthy." They may have heart disease, diabetes, depression, constipation. They are probably taking many medications, both prescription and over-the-counter. They often walk bent over, to one degree or another, with some sort of abnormal gait. They have probably had several surgeries in the past, and may have more planned for the near future. Their day-to-day activities and capabilities are diminishing, both physically and mentally. Yet, they claim to be healthy. The craziest version of this that I have heard? "I'm healthy, except for my cancer."


Do they think that they are healthy because The Doctor told them? To quote what our mothers told us when we were kids: "If your friend told you to jump off a building, would you do that?" Well, given the absurdly dangerous drugs that The Doctor tells them to take, "jumping off a building" isn't so far-fetched. The basic problem here is that so many people have abrogated all thinking/ reasoning in the realm of "health care" to The Doctor. THINK! How can you call yourself healthy, living on dangerous chemicals on a daily basis, getting parts cut out, and losing functionality?

I look back to when my father was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 40. The Doctor told him "Don't worry, Fred. Diabetes is the healthy man's disease." Really? Is that why my father died at 53? Is that why diabetes is one of the major killers? What my father's doctor said is downright stupid. My father's acceptance of that was, also, downright stupid. Yes, you as a lay person, a non-member of the medical priesthood, have the responsibility to think for yourselves. Parents! You have the responsibility to think for your children.

So, what is health? Dorland's Medical Dictionary defines health as "a state of optimal physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

Webster's:  "A condition of wholeness, in which all of the organs are functioning at 100%, all of the time."

How different is this from what you were lead to believe? Read these definitions again, and think on them!

So, health means 100% function. You want function? Then you need a nervous system unfettered by Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC). You want that? You come see me for lifetime, wellness chiropractic care.

Dr Harte, Corte Madera Chiropractor, Wonders About the "Walking Foolish"

Whenever I do a health screening, I am amazed how the people who have the most blatant need for Chiropractic (at least in the popularly understood way) look the other way.

I am talking about those who are bent over, difficulty walking, using a cane or a walker, those obviously having a difficult time getting around. Of course there is a portion of these people in which there is a balance issue, directly caused by their prescriptions. Over the years, I have seen many of these people getting more and more bent, lower and lower, more feeble. Yet they will not look my way, let alone check out what Chiropractic has to offer.

These are obvious medical failures. But, it is clear that they would rather be right than to be well. In any other human endeavor, if something or someone doesn't provide success, one looks elsewhere. And you wonder why I call Medicine a cult.

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

Chiropractors who are Wrong

So many people think that Chiropractic is about back pain. Wrong! But this is NOT your fault. This is the fault of so many chiropractors who have lost their way.

The purpose of Chiropractic is the detection, analysis and correction of Vertebral Subluxation (VS). VS is when vertebrae are out of normal anatomical/physiological juxtaposition, thereby interfering with the functioning of the brain and the nervous system. Is that a big deal? You betcha! Why? Your brain and your nervous system runs every system, every organ, every tissue, every cell in the body. When there is subluxation, that running, that control and coordination, is out of control. Health is harmony within. Subluxation interferes with health. Gentle, specific scientific chiropractic adjustments correct VS, allowing the body to heal itself, function at a higher level, and even begin to perfect itself.

If you have been to a chiropractor who merely "treated" your back pain, even if you were satisfied, you were not offered the full benefit, or even half the benefit, of real (straight) Chiropractic.

Demand nothing less than the real thing, for you, and your whole family, and for everyone you know.

What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.
THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC, P.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor

Better health expectations in the New Year

Hey! It's a New Year. What about new... better... more rational expectations for your health?

Maybe better health begins with better expectations, or, at least, the belief in the possibility of better health. Is this a useful train of thought? I'll go beyond that. This is a revolutionary train of thought. Why? No one goes, no one ventures, where there is no expectation. In fact, a good expectation is what dazzles. Did Columbus just go for a cruise?

What is the expected norm of health, or lack thereof? A body out of control, living upon a near-constant stream of drugs, from childhood vaccines to anti-depressants to blood-thinners. Vitually nothing gets well. You "live with it"... you accept it. This lifetime of insanity is run by a system that has the nerve (excuse the term) to call itself a health care system.

Chiropractic understands that your body is a self-healing, self-controlling, self-perfecting organism. Remove interference to this process, and you will thrive. You will be healthy.

Or, you can go back to believing all of the negative medical myths.

In this New Year, you can expect better, and go for it... or not. Up to you. If you want better, I will help you.

What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera straight chiropractor
Slayer of Subluxation
Liberator of Innate

Is Wellness weird?

Wellness is a word that is in vogue; however, it is not only misunderstood, it is roundly abused and misused. More to the point, the regular medical folks are doing their best to co-opt this word. They even begin with the feeling of wellness, with Kaiser ads talking about eating broccoli and doing yoga, etc.

In Rite-Aid, you can get a "Wellness" card. And, in CVS, about the pharmacy counter, it says "Wellness Center." If the pharmacy is a wellness center, what is a Disease Center?

Wellness is being well... healthy. You don't get health by fighting disease, just like you don't get light in a room by fighting darkness. You put on the light. You turn the switch.

If your "switches" are on "off," there is no drug, no surgical procedure, that will turn those switches to "on." This is the sole province of straight Chiropractic. We do not fight or cure disease. We correct interference (vertebral subluxation) to the master system, the nervous system, and get out of the way. We do not fight the darkness. A chiropractic adjustment, in a sense, flicks the switch, allowing your light to shine through.

This is wellness.

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

Is the FDA on drugs?

In a recent TIME magazine cover story, the latest diabetes drug disaster, wit Avadia, was covered. The name of the article was positively poetic: "IS THE FDA ON DRUGS?"

Well, the answer is "yes." You still think that they, the FDA, as part of the biiger "They," are there to protect you? Think again.

You'll never get healthy from drugs, from the Outside-in. Health only comes from Above-down, Inside-out. That's why you go to a straight chiropractor.

Yes, even with diabetes. Why not correct nerve interference, vertebral subluxation to the pancreas (and the liver and the adrenals)? Why not?

What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera straight chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Ham and Chiropractic

The classic chiropractic koan:

Q: What is the only thing that Man has ever cured?

A: A ham

What is the serious meaning of this? Humankind, the intelligence and will of humankind, up to and including all doctors of all sorts (INCLUDING chiropractors), does NOT cure of heal anything. It is only one's G-d-given Innate Intelligience, the force of Life, that cures, that heals.

Don't quite get it? Well, if you cut yourself, you will heal, even without knowing the very complicated cascade of biochemical events involved. If you cut a dead guy, will he heal? (What is the difference between you and the dead guy?

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

Wise words from 2300 years ago

Herophilus, a student of Hippocrates, wrote c. 300 B.C.E.:

"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be executed, wealth is useless and reason is powerless."

Smart guy. He is known as the father of anatomy. There he was, a Greek physician in Alexandria, Egypt, 300 BCE, and he was able to differentiate afferent (sensory) nerves from efferent (motor) nerves.

Dr. Don Harte
The Harte of Chiropractic, P.C.
Straight Chiropractic in Marin

Sickening news in Chiropractic

The National College of Allied Health Sciences, formerly the National College of Chiropractic, has gone one step further than taking "Chiropractic" out of their name. They now want to issue their degrees as "Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine." What an oxymoron!

Do you really want a chiropractor as a third-rate medical doctor for (simple) back pain? Or would you prefer a chiropractor who is a chiropractor, dedicated to correcting vertebral subluxation, the most serious threat to your health?

Don Harte, D.C.
Your Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
The Harte of Chiropractic, P.C.