The H1N1 Vaccine: For Health or Hype?

In my mailbox this week I received a monthly newsletter of the Communicable Disease Division of Boulder County titled "EPI Connections" from August/September 2009 (click to download a .pdf of this newsletter). Already this thing sounds like a conspiracy, some underground government division created for our "protection." The main article for this month's newsletter is about the H1N1 Vaccination Recommendations. The article presents concern of the Boulder County Public Health Department for our local population against the flu.

I have one thought (maybe more) to reply to this article. I think Vaccinations were great, 100 years ago. My question to YOU is, if our health care is soooo great and vaccinations are sooo good for us, why are we continually getting more sick? Is it these Super Viruses? If so, where did they come from? Is it our bodies' defense mechanisms? If so, why are they down?
Super Viruses like MRSA, were created because LIFE adapts and changes to the environment, ALL LIFE, whether it's a virus, bacteria, mice, monkeys or humans. We are all made of cells which change and adapt to an ever-changing environment, homeostasis. It's no wonder we have Super Viruses like MRSA-- it's simply a virus adapting to the super toxic drugs created to destroy them. The problem rests in OUR BODIES' ability to REGULATE and support healthy physiolocy (function). As for OUR bodies defense mechanisms, they are down because we are not giving OUR BODY the proper BUILDING BLOCKS.

The "EPI Connections" article places an urgency on children and young adults to receive vaccines. If we look at the status of this population, generally we see lower income and therefore have poorer nutrition and less supportive health care. As a society we are ingesting more sugar then ever before, approximately 160 pounds per year and an extra 24 pounds of artificial sweeteners. This is the average "healthy American diet", a fun acronym for our diet is SAD (Standard American Diet). It truly is SAD! There is a great article that describes how the immune system becomes down regulated from sugar and why we need to STOP.

Please THINK about vaccinations and check out their negative effects before taking your health for granted. I recommend the book titled Vaccination: Examining the Record by Judith De Cava. It is a fantastic book, easy to read and will change the way you think about vaccinations.

by Dr. John Wendt

Stress Reduction - Two techniques

Stress is part of a conditioned negative pattern in the brain. Several things contribute to negative sympathetic stress:

1. Trauma, Pain
2. Negative thoughts, emotions
3. Toxins
4. Lack of movement, exercise
5. Sugar

The following are two of the many ways you can reduce your stress levels.

1. NET (Neuro-Emotional Technique)

NET provides a fast, effective means of stopping the negative conditioned pattern. Computer-drafted SPECT scans that measure metabolic activity, show a 50% or greater reduction of metabolic activity of the areas of brain associated with stress within minutes after a Neuro-Emotional Component clearing.

2. Breathing Techniques

Yogi breathing - by concentrating on the breath and calming the mind to focus on slow rhythmic breathing, you allow your body the opportunity to reset the stress patterns in the brain.

Cover left nostril, breathe in through the right, cover the opposite and breathe out through the left. Then breathe in through the left and out through the right. Continue this for 3-5 minutes with long slow deep breaths.


If you ever find yourself feeling isolated or stuck at the bottom of a pit or feeling that the world is against you, call out for help. Sometimes we just need a hand to get us back up on our feet.

by Dr. John Wendt

Simple Facts with Dr. John

What would happen if we never took the trash out of the house? Would you be able to live amongst the garbage piling up over the course of a week? A month? How about a whole year? In our current era, we live in a world of pollution, pesticides in our non-organic foods, synthetic chemicals in our water supply, and even our bodies’ own waste, all of which pile up like garbage in our personal “homes”, our physical bodies. If we don't take out the garbage then we have to live amongst it. Imagine a house filled with garbage. What kind of disgusting, rotting things would you find over a year? Now imagine our bodies housing the same rotting materials. WAKE UP! This is exactly what is happening. Disease doesn't just happen, it's created.

Learn about safe effective ways to clean up the garbage during our April Lecture series. (This series will be repeated again in August.)

by Dr. John Wendt

Defeat the Winter Blahs

"I fear I've wasted all my sun, I fear I've wasted all my time. Everything is faded. Smiles are fabricated now. Held my eyes closed for too long." ~Fuel

We are extremely blessed to have on average 300 days of sun during most of the year in Colorado. When winter rolls through, Coloradans experience a huge contrast as most of our non-sunny days come all at once.

One of the many blessings of living in Colorado is also a curse as we spend more and more of our time indoors. The incandescent bulb is missing many of the color variances of the sun's natural color spectrum containing large amounts of yellow (stress-inducing) and decreased amounts of blue (calming), vital for proper neurological development of the parietal and frontal regions of the brain.

During the holidays we encounter many stressors on our bodies. Our friends, families, churches, schools, and social circles ask us to celebrate the holiday season with them which adds stress to our lives throughout an already self-inflicted stressful period. Often our exercise routines take a nose-dive, our eating habits become carb-loaded, and our minds become others-oriented. All of these factors are in themselves not terrible, but put them all into a 40-day period and we find extreme levels of self-inflicted stress and undue tension.

Also at this time we tend to hibernate in our warm homes, offices and cars. Those lunch time walks and evening dog necessities become farther and farther apart. The natural physiological tendency is to load up on food and begin to prepare for a tough season ahead. The problem is that we live in the 21st century. Starbucks, Krispie Kreme, Budweiser and Safeway Deli don't care about our lack of motivation. We tend to push push push through the season and come out the other end with a list of resolutions to keep us busy for several months trying to restore our health, weight and sanity.

Some tips for staying happy, healthy and reduce your stress this winter season:

• Chiropractic - Of course! This not only aids your body's ability to properly regulate blood sugar, digestion, sleep cycles, menstruation, cancer, but it also helps restore range of motion and rehabilitating the body and brain after falls, ski accidents and other injuries.
  
  
• Get plenty of exercise
  
  
• Eye Lights - These wonderful devices help to balance brain activity when used in conjunction with chiropractic. They provide brain balancing stimulation to the less stimulated areas of the brain at any point during the day.
  
  
• Light Therapy - Full spectrum light bulbs decrease depression, anxiety, tension, sleep disturbances, migraines, high blood pressure, sugar and starch craving, violence and agression, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and much more. They have also been shown to increase alertness, energy, productivity, calcium absorption, visual acuity, immune system function, academic performance, concentration and cooperation. Visit lightforhealth.com for more information.
  
  
• Nutrition - Omega 3 Fish Oils (supports all cellular function and immune system support and neurological development), Protein (Increase cellular repair and neurological development), Symplex M/F (supports hormonal pathways), Min-Chex (Supports concentration and relaxation, is good for ADD and ADHD), Niacinamide B6 (supports neurology, aids in depression, vasodilation and fatty acid metabolism), St. Johns Wort (supports nervousness and nervous system function), Nevaton (helps with nervousness, concentration, anxiety and depression.)

With these tips, you can hopefully enjoy and stress-less and happy winter season.

by Dr. John Wendt

Organic Food Facts

The biggest study ever into organic food – a four-year EU funded project called the Quality Low Input Food (QLIF) project – found that organic food is FAR more nutritious than ordinary produce, and can help improve your health and longevity. You're likely to hear more about this again, once they publish their findings in full, which is expected to occur by the end of this year.

Of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories in the Guide to Pesticides, the following twelve foods had the lowest pesticide load when conventionally grown. Consequently, they are the safest conventionally grown crops to consume:

• Broccoli
• Eggplant
• Cabbage
• Banana
• Kiwi
• Asparagus
• Sweet peas (frozen)
• Mango
• Pineapple
• Sweet corn (frozen)
• Avocado
• Onion

This is where the EWG study of pesticide residue on produce really helps. Of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories tested, these 12 fruits and vegetables had the highest pesticide load, making them the most important to buy or grow organic:

• Peaches
• Apples
• Sweet bell peppers
• Celery
• Nectarines
• Strawberries
• Cherries
• Lettuce
• Grapes (imported)
• Pears
• Spinach
• Potatoes

Conventionally-grown strawberries, in particular, were found to be highly toxic due to a poisonous blend of pesticides in a previous 2007 EU study as well.

But be VERY careful as the list above is for fruits and vegetables. Non-organic meats have far higher concentrations of pesticides than all of the fruits and vegetables. And the highest concentration of pesticides is actually in non-organic butter.

For example, this study found that:

• Organic fruit and vegetables contain up to 40 percent more antioxidants
• Organic produce had higher levels of beneficial minerals like iron and zinc
• Milk from organic herds contained up to 90 percent more antioxidants

by Dr. John Wendt

Intelligent Universe

"Those who disobey the laws of Heaven and Earth have a lifetime of calamities, while those who follow the laws remain free from dangerous illness."

--Huang Ti Nei Ching



Innately, we know what we need in our lives to be healthy and happy. The problems arise from our fast paced world and self-induced stress to achieve more. Out of this lifestyle we make the wrong choices on a daily basis. Each of us looks to understand these choices, when we must simply slow down and think about what each of us truly wants-- the big picture that depicts our life.

At Life Chiropractic we only wish to help you find your truths, you are the one who has to make the choices.

Decluttering Emotions

In our office we use a technique called Neuro-Emotional Technique (or NET). Last week we had a patient tell us that sometimes after his appointment that he goes home and has to throw out a bunch of stuff, essentially decluttering his physical space as he declutters his mental space. Emotions can cause us to hold onto all kinds of things!

Emotions are the most powerful link in your mind and help hold memory patterns together. Negative emotions from past trauma hold negative patterns in your body. NET can physically release the emotions from the body! Neuro-Emotional Complexes (or NECs) can cause negative patters such as self destructive behavior, insecurity, judgment, projection, feeling down, feeling overworked, etc. The process of an NET session neurologically resets the body's brain and energy systems. Releasing negative emotional patterns is the true power of NET.

This week we had a patient say "There are no lazy people, only NECs that keep them from being productive."

For more on NET, you can visit www.netmindbody.com or come in to our office for one of our talks or a free consultation.