Marin Chiropractor Declares Chiropractic "Progressive"

No, not the usual excuse-for-chiropractic, little chiropractors in white coats offering third-rate medical treatment of back pain. This is only a continuation, and appendage, of the Medical Establishment. This is neither "alternative," nor "natural." This is a cop-out.

Straight Chiropractic... real Chiropractic, can be considered progressive. What Dr. DD Palmer discovered in 1895 did indeed cause a great progression in health care. No longer was diagnosis relevant, nor any sort of treatment required. The chiropractor detects and analyses Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC), interference to the body regulating itself properly. Then, the chiropractor corrects VSC with an adjustment, allowing the body to regulate itself properly. Dr. Palmer understood that there is an Innate Intelligence in all living things, responsible for all aspects of life. Interference with the expression of that Innate Intelligence causes less expression of life. This is big. This is progressive.

Medicine always sought.control over bodily processes. Every new biological discovery  gets them all excited as to a new way that they can manipulate bodily processes. This is a mechanistic, "Outside-in" approach. It may sometimes ameliorate the symptoms of a disease, or keep a disease stable, but it never fosters health. This is a regressive attitude. This is a regressive approach.

Progress? Progress is getting back to the respect of the power of Nature, understanding that health only comes from "Above-down, Inside-out." This vitalistic, wholistic attitude, this approach, is progressive. This is the chiropractic way.

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

Corte Madera Chiropractor Exposes the Human Cost of Poor Chiropractic

No, I am not talking about 100's of thousands of deaths a year. That is what happens from poor medical care. I am not talking about millions of people getting sicker and more disabled each year. That, too, is the province of Medicine. The human cost of poor, low-level Chiropractic is more subtle. But being closer to home, it infuriates me that much more.

Let me define what I mean by poor, low-level Chiropractic. Remember that Chiropractic is a Science, and Art and a Philosophy. When there are serious deficiencies in any or all of these aspects, then you have low level Chiropractic.

Philosophy first. Chiropractic is based upon the vitalistic, HOLISTIC philosophy that the body heals itself and regulated itself, from Above-down, Inside-out. Your own Innate Intelligence runs everything. When there is an interference to this running, in the form of Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC), dysfunction occurs, leading to dis-ease, and eventually, disease. The mission of the chiropractor is the detection, analysis and coorection of VSC. We remove interference, and get out of the way. If you go to a chiropractor, or know someone going to a chiropractor, who is merely "treating" the low back pain according to the six visits allowed by the managed care company, well, you're not getting the real thing. If a chiropractor is doing physical therapy, like those idiotic disk decompression tables, or cold lasers, or various sorts of electrical stimulation, he or she is missing the point. A real chiropractor does not treat pain; he or she corrects interference... cause... allowing the body to heal. These low-level chiropractors? You will never hear them talk of subluxation, of Innate Intelligence. Thes things, which are the bedrock of Chiropractic, do not concern them.

Art. This is the actual adjusting. If a chiropractor is crude, unnecessarily non-specific, and tends to do the same adjustment, every time (and, if you ask around in that office, the same adjustment to everyone) this action ceases to be an adjustment. In its crudeness, and its lack of proper intent, it becomes a manipulation. Whole different thing!

Then there's the Science. If a chiropractor is not doing X-rays and neurological scans, and proper exams and re-exams, to actually evaluate VSC, where's the science? If he or she just cranks your back where you point to, that is noweher near Chiropractic. If you are not put on a plan of care, to begin to undo the years and decades of subluxation, if you are allowed or even encouraged to come in "when you need it," this is what I call Advil Chiropractic.

Advil Chiropractic is very expensive. Sure, you pay less that you would here, but what you get is virtually nothing. You will never get change like this. If anything, you will get some temporary relief. If if the chiropractor is relatively cheap, say $40 or $50 a visit, you can get the same result from popping a couple of Advil, at a cost of about 53 cents. (No, I am not recommending Advil.)

So, what IS the HUMAN COST OF POOR CHIROPRACTIC? Well, most people walk away from these experiences saying "I tried Chiropractic but it didn't work." Well, you went to a chiropractor, but you didn;t get Chiropractic. You got something else.

Those who get quick relief, and are happy with that, are unwilling to come to an office like mine to spend the time and money to free their nervous systems, allow their bodies to heal and to express more of their human potential... physically, mentally, socially. In the past, they've been ripped off, yet they think that I am trying to do that. No! I am delivering the real thing, straight Chiropractic.

So, these people will find one more low level chiropractor, and get manipulated, rubbed, gelled, electro-shocked, pulled, whatever, and never get their life-threatening Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC) addressed. They will continue their spinal degeneration and their neurological degeneration. They will keep their old injuries and their old disease, which will worsen over time. They will continue to suffer from the devastating effects of taking their lifetime drugs, and getting surgery after surgery.

Those who fancy themselves as "alternative" may stay away, for a time, from the drugs and surgery, but their bodies will continue to deteriorate, sometime obviously, sometimes not, from the tragic effects of VSC.

Insist upon the real thing.

What do YOU think?

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

Is Marin really "wholistic?"

As an intellectual, quasi-spiritual hobby, many inhabitants of Marin County view themselves as wholistic.

Are they, really? Or do they just advocate natural/organic-feeling things that seem wholistic? Is there more schtick than substance?

The ultimate "wholistic" is the vitalistic philosophy of Chiropractic, which medical cultists may deride as dogmatic.

B.J. Palmer, D.C., Ph.C., known as the "Developer of Chiropractic" (son of the founder, Dr. D.D. Palmer), wrote:
"Why even cabbages grow from within, outward, and yet many cannot understand the fundamentals of Chiropractic."

These days, very sadly, that includes a lot of chiropractors.

What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor

MMPD: Marin Mercury Perceptual Disorder

Today's from page of the Marin Independent Journal ad an article about this little environmental group based in Forest Knolls that "went undercover" to test fish sold in Marin for mercury levels. (Undercover? Were the fish armed? No, only finned.)

The absurdity of this obsession, coupled with the anti-obsession with mercury in vaccines, the real health hazard, propelled me to send the following op editorial to the Marin IJ.

Here ya go:

As the Mercedes ad campaign, from a few years ago, went, “Perception is not always reality.” When common misperception causes people to make foolish health decisions, this can be a public health disaster.

The article, and the outcries that will follow, of the Marin-based group, GotMercury.org, brings 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.

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