Why I am a Doctor of Chiropractic

That spark of life, originating in the hands of God, flowing from above to down and from inside to outside is consigned to the structures we call the nervous system. This very framework enables us to hear the purr of a kitten, view a rose bedecked with dew, and feel the wet sand from the shoreline slip between our toes. It coordinates the senses so we can walk up the stairs, put a spoon to our mouth, and tell us when it is time to go to the bathroom. The nervous system is the greatest magician on earth as it can recast a green pepper into human life by merely tickling the digestive system with action potential. 

This anatomy we call the nervous system is responsible for accepting the Creator’s inspiration for perfection and transforming it into physical existence. We hold this anatomy accountable for directing the orchestra of our lives. It tells the heart to beat, the kidneys to filter, and the blood vessels to constrict and dilate. It tastes the sour berries and feels the warmth of the sun on our faces. It sparks our legs to ambulation. It balances blood chemistry and pressure. The nervous system allows you to swing a bat, catch a ball, and skate on ice. 

The nervous system is responsible for controlling and coordinating EVERY function of our bodies. This precious entity that we call the nervous system is the interface that moves human experience. Chiropractic is a healing art that dances with that part of our anatomy in which the very force of life is transformed into matter. It is our breath, our thoughts, our passion, our life. It is the modality that speaks both languages of spirit and body. Our nervous system is the metaphor that transforms and binds spirit and heaven into matter and earth.  

The chiropractic adjustment is a telescopic connection to the Big Picture. Removing nerve stress by adjusting misaligned vertebrae restores life not by replacing with implants, controlling with machines, or chemically altering with drugs, but rather by allowing, freeing, and innately accepting the ability of the body to regulate itself. The chiropractic philosophy is hopeful of possibilities and pursues what is right within the body, not fearful of probabilities searching for what is wrong within the body. 

Exalting the Hippocratic tradition of “first do no harm,” chiropractic exercises the body’s wisdom in contrast to exorcizing the body’s failures. Chiropractic moves by experience, intuition, and spirit, not by scientific dogma and outdated tradition for the miracle of life cannot be truly explained scientifically. One cannot dissect love, grow the breath in a laboratory, or capture the sunshine in a test tube. Chiropractic focuses on health not disease, the whole body not parts, and promotes life rather than avoids death.  

Why am I a Doctor of Chiropractic? 

Because I honor the inborn potential of everyone to be truly healthy. 
Because I desire to help the newborn, the aged, and those without hope. 
Because I choose to care for the patient with the disease, not the disease. 
Because I wish to assist rather than intrude, to free rather than control. 
Because I seek the cause, not the effect. 
Because I know doctors do not heal; only the body can heal itself. 
Because I have been called to serve others. 
Because I want to make a difference. 
Because every day I get to witness miracles.
Because I know it is right.
 

 

 

Do Your Vitamin Supplements Really Work?

I must first acknowledge that if we lived in perfect stress free world with no high fructose corn syrup, Aspartame, hydrogenated fats, processed, pasteurized, irradiated, or fast food, GMOs, and we only ate 100% organic produce, nuts and seeds, all complementing our grass fed beef, pastured chickens, and fish caught from a clean ocean, we would not need vitamin supplements.  OK…back to reality.

There are two types of supplements: Those made from whole foods and those created in a test tube. “The body doesn’t know the difference” remains the mantra of the synthetic vitamin companies. However, laboratory made, synthetic, lifeless, inert, fractionalized, isolated, chemicals can never be passed off as whole food complexes complete with live enzymes, co-factors, trace minerals, antioxidants, and activators. The wisdom of the human body is infinitely more intellectual and transcendent than man’s finite ego-based book knowledge and very certainly does know the difference. 

Strike one: Synthetic molecules can never function like a whole food complex. 

Ascorbic acid is commonly thought of as vitamin C. It is not. Synthetic vitamins are “pieces” of a once dynamic food matrix. Ascorbic acid is the outer layer of molecules that keeps the inner vitamin C complex from oxidizing.  It is the Tupperware® that keeps vitamin C mosaic from spoiling. Vitamin C is instead is a network of nutrients which includes flavonoids (a complete biochemical matrix in and of itself including rutin, quercetin, epicatechin, flavones, isoflavones, flavins with their own subgroups, and anthocyanidins.) Let’s not leave out tyrosinase, an enzymatic form of organic copper essential for proper adrenal function, as well as P, K, and J factors. Pretending ascorbic acid is vitamin C is classic reductionism (Newtonian physics). It is bad science from an outdated paradigm. The carrot has over 200 known nutrients and phytonutrients in it. Are you satisfied with a synthetic beta carotene laced supplement or would it be a more nutritionally sound choice to have a supplement made from carrots? We can say the same for d-alpha tocopherol posing as vitamin E. 

Strike two: The sources of these lifeless chemicals will make you think twice.

Most synthetic vitamins are petroleum extracts and coal tar derivatives. Other chemicals used to create these imposters include methanol, benzene, ammonia, and formaldehyde. Ascorbic acid is made by hydrogenated corn sugar, acetone, and hydrochloric acid. It’s toxic sugar. Corn products in this country (unless grown organically) are genetically adulterated through Monsanto’s GMO program. Genetically altered food is dangerous and comes with inherent health risks.

The giant pharmaceutical company Hoffman LaRoche, in the mid-1940s, started manufacturing d-alpha tocopherol (synthetic form of vitamin E) from turpentine, acetone, and acetylin. Any relationship of this man-made vitamin E to a natural food based vitamin E was perhaps chemical but hardly biological. Through prestige and power in the marketing industry, they were able to force this bad science through regulatory channels as the chemical industry standard.

Strike three: The molecules that make up a synthetic vitamin are optical isomers

They are mirror images. Because these structures are reversed, a left handed molecule cannot take part in a chemical reaction meant for a right handed molecule. Try as a mad scientist might, he has not been able to create a molecule in a lab that will “spin” in the “natural” direction. Physiologically speaking, these counterfeit pseudo-vitamins cannot work despite million dollar TV commercials.

Synthetic vitamins can only function like all other man-made pharmaceuticals. They alter chemical reactions in the body so we perceive or sense a different outcome. They stimulate and never feed the body. The effect of a synthetic vitamin is palliative at best and never curative. At worst, these counterfeit supplements can impair bodily functions by contributing to biochemical imbalance. When choosing a supplement, be sure the ingredient label reads like a garden and not like a chemical text book.