Toxins

We live in a world where the products that we use on a daily basis are actually laden with some of the most toxic chemicals on the planet.

I was recently diagnosed with higher than average mercury levels in my blood. This was determined to be caused by my “mercury amalgam” fillings. Surprise surprise to me when I was told that a lot of the health problems I had been plagued with my entire life were directly caused by this mercury leaching into my blood stream from my teeth.

Studies are now showing that continuous exposure to toxic chemicals in personal hygiene products, such as antiperspirants, may be related to allergic reactions, Alzheimer’s, and even breast cancer in woman. This may come as no surprise considering the fact that most deodorants are made up of aluminum chlorohydrate, as well as up to 20 other toxic chemicals.

A study from the Journal of Applied Toxicology conducted research on antiperspirant with high levels of aluminum. The addition of aluminum, a chemical which enters the bodythrough the sensitive underarm tissue, works to block our sweat ducts, thus reducing the amount of sweat that the body produces. But is this lack of perspiration and neutralization of body odor worth the constant daily intake of high levels of aluminum?

Similarly, a recent study from Reading University found that cancerous tumors are most likely to appear in the parts of the female breast which is closest to where antiperspirants are applied. Of the women studied, it was found that cysts in the armpit area of the breast had 25 times more aluminum than the common amount found in blood.

Antiperspirants containing aluminum, work to stop completely perspiration from occurring. Deodorants do not contain aluminum. Deodorants allow perspiration. They work to kill the bacteria that causes odor when we perspire. From a purely natural standpoint, it makes more sense for us to use deodorants, as it is clearly more natural to allow our bodies to sweat.

Of course none of us wants to emit an unpleasant, offensive odor, but aluminum-free underarm deodorants do work to keep us feeling clean and fresh and bonus are all natural.

WARNING! These other products may contain Aluminum!

Antacids Vaccines Cookware Dentures Lipstick Toothpaste Astringents

Nasal Sprays Baking Powder Vaginal Douches Processed cheese Buffered Aspirin Hemorrhoid medications Anti-Diarrhea Medication

Emotional Clearing

To stay on our current topic following my podcast, I recently read Candice Pert's (Ph.D. former NIH researcher, now Georgetown University research professor) book, Molecules of Emotion, and was fascinated with the connections she found and the ones she hypothesized concerning emotions being stored in the body.

During my chiropractic appointments we are always “clearing” emotions in my body. I mean everything is emotional and there is proven science to say that we store emotions in our bodies.

Our body is like a giant circuit board. Every cell in our body responds to every thought we think and every word we say. Every emotion we feel we react to, negative emotions drain us and positive ones light us up. Its that simple.

Certain emotions are “harbored” in certain areas of your body. The mantras of Louise Hay’s bring to light what kind of thoughts can trigger pain and discomfort in different areas of the body. Sometimes so much harbored negative emotions can cause problems, such like a lot of hair down the shower drain can cause a clog.

Emotion is just energy in motion. Strong feelings we experience are an important aspect of health. They are the tools we use to create our existence. These emotions are normal and healthy when they are flowing but like above can cause a pretty bad clog and some serious problems when not addressed.

Minor “clearing” can be the best thing in the world. Holding onto these emotions can weight you down and you might not even realize it until you clear it and feel light again. Most emotions for me are stored in my upper back, shoulder area. I seem to like to place all my worries on my back sort to say.

First things we clear the emotions, to finish I get an adjustment of my back, and with all the emotions released and in perfect alignment I feel like a million bucks and you can too. Check out all of the things chiropractic can do for you.

Check out kinetics3.com for further information on chiropractic in Newport Beach.

For Your Listening Pleasure.

This weeks a bit different, I've made my very first podcast!

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This week I had a sit down with Dr. Daniel Stone of Kinetics 3 Chiropractic in Newport Beach. We chatted on chiropractic care, alternative health, and everything in between. Enjoy.

For more info on Dr. Stone, please visit kinetics3.com

Times Get Hard for Vitamins

Everyone needs vitamins, which are critical for the body. But for most people, the micronutrients we get from foods usually are adequate to prevent vitamin deficiency, which is rare in the United States. Some extra vitamins have proven benefits, such as vitamin B12 supplements for the elderly and folic acid for women of child-bearing age. And calcium and vitamin D in women over 65 appear to protect bone health.

But many people gobble down large doses of vitamins believing that they boost the body’s ability to fight cancer and heart disease. In addition to the more recent research, several reports in recent years have challenged the notion that vitamins are good for you.

This week researchers reported results from a large clinical trial of almost 15,000 male doctors taking vitamins E and C for a decade. The study showed no meaningful effect on cancer rates.

Another recent study found no benefit of vitamins for heart disease.

And recently, doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have said that vitamin C seems to protect not just healthy cells but cancer cells, too.

Despite a lack of evidence that vitamins actually work, most appear unwilling to give them up. Which is good because in some cases vitamins have been proven to work well for some. Everyone is different, as always consult your doctor prior to see if anything you are taking is necessary and works for you individually.

Depression treatment could treat more than just the sufferer

Recently I read an article on the affects of a Mother's depression on childrens injuries. The article in ScienceDaily says, infants and toddlers whose mothers are severely depressed are almost three times more likely to suffer accidental injuries than other children in the same age group, according to a new study.

The study's findings, published May 14 in the Advanced Access edition of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, suggest that proper treatment for depression would improve not only the mothers' health, but the health of young children as well.

A likely cause for the link between severe maternal depression and young children's injury risk is that chronically depressed mothers may not appropriately safeguard the physical environments that children engage in. Another cause may be that symptoms of depression include inattention, poor concentration and irritability, which might lead to poor or inconsistent supervision and enforcement of safety-related rules.

Another article in ScienceDaily claims Young children whose mothers are depressed are more prone to behavioural problems and injury, suggested by US research published in Injury Prevention.

Children whose mothers scored persistently high marks on the depression scales were more than twice as likely to have been injured as those whose mothers had a low rating. And children whose mothers had a high rating were significantly more likely to have behavioural problems and to "act out." Boys were more at risk of this than girls.

And in a third article, A study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and nine other U.S. centers, evaluated the effects of maternal depression on children's development.

Found was that depressed mothers in general were less sensitive to their children, that their children displayed poorer verbal and language skills and that those children showed more problem behaviors. Children whose mothers were more sensitive, however, did better on our measures and behaved better regardless of their mothers' level of depression.

What this all leads down to is just how important mental and psychological health is to our over all health and the health of those closest to us. There is no doubt that a mother and child have a closer relationship than most, but in most cases I wouldn’t be surprised if a husband and wife living in close quarters experienced this same kind of affects. We need to begin taking seriously the effects of our psychological health and what it is doing to us. For the most part parents and adults alike believe they can handle it themselves and this is prove it is not worth handling when it is affecting those closest to you.

Scientists find safer way to make human stem cells.

According to a Reuters article dated March 26, 2009 – U.S. researchers have found a safer way to coax human skin cells into embryonic-like stem cells.

What does this mean? Well the researchers feel this is taking a step closer to their potential in using stem cells as treatment for diseases.

A team at the University of Wisconsin has published their findings regarding the so-called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells.

In theory these iPS cells harness the unique qualities to create new treatments for a variety of medical conditions. According to the Reuters article, Induced pluripotent stem cells promise many of the possible therapeutic benefits of embryonic stem cells without the ethics controversy because, unlike embryonic stem cells, they can be created without destroying a human embryo.

In the future we can hope to see several methods come out for creating iPS cells, then scientists can start to look for the ones that provide the most consistent results. But for now it looks that President Barack Obama’s move to lift the Bush administration’s restriction on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research is the only move.

Lets keep up the good work guys and gals. I can’t wait to follow this story further as it develops.

Lack of technology or what?

In a recent article I read that a mere 1.5 percent of hospitals nationwide are using some kind of electronic health record system.

Now I wonder if this is a good thing or a bad thing? I understand not wanting too much of your personal information out on some kind of database for just anyone to access. But really people all of your information is out there, what would this change.

Recently I found out that most companies could easily obtain a credit report regarding any of their customers if they can show that you owe them some kind of money. Just like collection agencies can look at your credit report. And that holds tons of personal information, social security numbers, all you’re past addresses, etc. And not only that these people don’t care who you are and they don’t care about your information.

You wonder why there is such a problem with identity theft – all of our information is right there for whoever wants it.

Back on the subject of hospitals though – is it good or bad? On the other side it could be beneficial if you are in an accident that they can pull up some kind of record on you anywhere.

“The federal stimulus package recently signed into law contains $19 billion for hospitals to adopt the technology and incentives for doctors to use it, with the hope that getting data online will improve patient care and save time and money.”

Right now larger hospitals in urban areas and teaching hospitals are the ones most likely to have electronic records but recently announced wal-mart in their sams club locations will begin selling medical record software. I guess we’ll have to follow this to see if this will be a good addition or a bad move.