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June 30, 2009
Hi ,
It has been a busy couple of weeks. After returning from my little expedition to Japan to attend my son Mason's graduation from Temple University, I wanted to focus on ways to better address the many facets of preventative healthcare available through natural means. We have such a huge number of things we can do to support health in our office, but no really effective means of getting this information and opportunity to the majority of my patients. Toward this end I have created a new position in the office, a Health Care Coordinator. Ellen has stepped up to the plate to fill this post as it matches skills she already posses from years of coordinating care for patients in Dental offices.
We began this process by starting to perform examinations of the general physical health and functioning of the body control circuits when we got robbed. The office was broken into and the laptop computer these exams were being performed with was stolen. Chaos followed for the next several days but we are back together now and ready to pick up where we left off. These examinations of the "software" of the body are only the first step. We are complex creatures and our health needs are equally complex. I try to address some of this complexity with the variety of things I check during a typical office visit, but there is so much more we could be doing...hence the need for a health care coordinator.
We have all heard about the mind - body connection. We may not necessarily understand it, but we get the idea that somehow the mind affects the body and can either cause or cure disease. These interactions are being studied for "big" diseases like cancer and heart disease, but hardly anyone is looking at the day-to-day level of mind - body interaction that affects every one of us... as tension.
What is tension? Quite literally it is our muscles becoming tight inappropriately (or at least without our desire for them to do so) anywhere in or on the body. This can happen because most of the muscles in our body are not under our conscious control. When we think of our muscles, we tend to think specifically of our voluntary muscles. These are the muscles that contract when we tell them to do so. We rarely give a thought to the larger group of muscles that do their work without our conscious thought - the involuntary muscles.
The involuntary muscles do all the work that is too complex for us to keep track of. The stabilizer muscles around our joints keep movement centered within the joint to prevent injury to the joint. Postural muscles keep us balanced and upright and serve as a form of long distance feeling communication. Arterial and heart muscles keep the blood pressure steady and blood moving so all parts of our body can receive oxygen. GI muscles move our food along so we can break it down and absorb it. Breathing muscles in the diaphragm and between the ribs bring air into our lungs. Even our conscious muscles act unconsciously while they are opposing the action of other muscles to produce smooth movement.
Our feelings control the tone of our muscles and blood flow to our organs. When we get angry we might clench our jaws, or fists, or stamp our feet. When we get scared or really lonely we might curl up into a little ball, or rock our body, or run away. These are examples of our conscious feelings being expressed through our conscious muscles. Our tension feelings are played out as tension in our muscles.
Most of our feelings however are unconscious, and they play out in our unconscious (involuntary) muscles. Blood flow to our heart might become compromised giving us angina, or our gut motility may go excess to diarrhea or deficient to constipation. Stabilizer muscles may weaken or fail to coordinate properly making joints hurt or your "back go out". Postural muscles may lose tone making balance difficult, or chronic poor posture that creates degenerative arthritis. Our diaphragm may tighten causing us to have difficulty getting a deep breath and leading to a panic attack due to low oxygen levels in the brain. We may get weak as opposing muscles work against muscles trying to contract. Muscle injuries may seem to happen for no reason because the blood flow becomes poor and coordination is lost.
Many things confuse and create conflicts within the unconscious mind. Drugs, modern foods, life stress, toxic chemicals, and so on all confuse and conflict the unconscious mind. 80% of our ill health is tied to these unresolved feelings through their actions on our involuntary muscles. Our ability to clearly feel and respond to what we want or need gets confused by too much stuff going on inside of us. Life has become too complex and toxic, and our body is taking the hit for this. A lot of this excess information running around in our system acts like viruses...like computer viruses. It corrupts the balance within us.
What can we do? It is not practical to try to turn back our lifestyle 100 years to a simpler time when most ill health was due to infectious disease and accidents. We live in stressful times. Our food is stressful, our relationships are stressful, our jobs are stressful, our free time is stressful, even the air we breathe is stressful. All this stress unbalances our system and corrupts our operating instructions for our body. We need to reprogram and reboot our systems on a regular basis.
The simplest, easiest, and least expensive way I know how to do this is with custom Homeopathic remedies (a type of electrical program information packet stored in the chemical bonds of the liquid remedy). This is created by electronically evaluating your brain's "central body control processor" -your mind/body control circuits. Your weak or challenged areas are found and hundreds of remedies are tested to find the ones that will bring you back to balance. These electrical programs are then encoded into the remedy liquid. A couple quick sprays or drops under your tongue every day gives your system the information it needs to reprogram your faulty control circuits and reboot your system.
As this is a dynamic remedy that evolves as you do. After 3 weeks of retraining your body with one remedy, we re-evaluate you and create a new custom remedy tailored just to your needs to use for another 3 weeks. Generally within 4 to 12 remedy cycles your system is retrained back to health in its ability to coordinate and control your body. Ellen is currently running this electronic exam on any patient free of charge along with a Heart Rate Variability exam to test your overall physical fitness and adaptability. Creating a custom homeopathic remedy for your system is specially priced at only $9 (normally $15). Follow-up exams at 3-week intervals are only $25. I can't imagine a less expensive yet powerful addition to your total health recovery. Best of all almost no work is needed at home - just a couple sprays or drops under the tongue twice a day. How much simpler can you get? Call the office today to set up an exam with Ellen.
Good Journey,
David
Health Challenge #11
Eat more fiber!
We have all heard this one for a long time - mostly as it relates to having regular bowel movements. This is certainly important on a comfort level, but what is the real reason fiber is important? Life is toxic. Living systems produce toxic waste and that waste has to be eliminated or else the system becomes poisoned and disease shortly follows. Every cell in your body produces toxic chemicals as they manufacture the energy and substances they need to live. Your hormones and neurotransmitters and hundreds of other biochemical products become a toxic burden to the body once they have done their jobs.
We tend to think that our bowel movements are just the leftovers from what we ate...not true. The most important component of your bowel movements are the toxic breakdown products of your body's chemistry. Your liver gathers these poisons, breaks them down, and excretes them into your small intestine. Here is why fiber is so critical. These poisons have to bind to various fibers to be carried out of the body to be eliminated. If there is insufficient fiber, these poisons will be re-absorbed back into your bloodstream. Fiber carries out the poisonous trash of your body.
Our ancestors regularly ate 100 to 200 grams of fiber a day. The average American is lucky if he gets 10 to 15 grams of fiber daily. We have processed out the fiber from our diet. Very little fiber means we are gradually being poisoned from the inside out. Where do we get fiber? You guessed it, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and legumes. For those that can tolerate them, whole grains (and that means actually eating the whole grain, not some flour that gas been allowed to sit around for hours or days and gone rancid) are also a good source. Here is a good link to fiber in foods:
Fiber and health
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Whale Watch:
Ah emotions; they are what make life worth living yet they are also the root cause of obesity. How we feel determines our perceived hunger and generates the cravings for specific foods that can change our perceived hunger. When we are centered in the now moment and feeling life as it is without judgment our perceived hunger feelings match what our body actually needs and wants. Other than a few enlightened masters, I don't know anyone who is able to live in this place for any length of time. I certainly have not been in that place for the last two weeks.
Beginning with some glaring reflections of myself I noticed while in Japan, a whole load of unconscious old family stuff started bubbling to the surface and along with it a lot of unnecessary eating. I can tell when I am processing "stuff" because I am drawn to dairy foods and sweet stuff. Fortunately I recognize this symptom and start actively engaging uncovering the lies stuck in my unconscious that drive this behavior. Unfortunately things get worse before they get better with these self discovery processes, and the eating goes right along for the ride.
I have my helpers and my tools engaged so hopefully this will just be two or three weeks of imbalance instead of six years of therapy and an additional fifty pounds. In the past I would have kept it all inside and worked on it, but we are amazingly blind to ourselves. Our stuck spots can be obvious to others but completely invisible to us, so we need other people's input when we are working on ourselves. We can't do it alone.
David
Ouestions - if you have questions of a health or growth nature we could discuss in this newsletter, or if you have comments or ideas about a future newsletter focus please email me at:
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For those of you with cholesterol levels over 240 that are concerned with lowering your cholesterol, consider blueberries. Statin drugs are the prescription of choice, however there are serious side effects from statin use. These drugs work by blocking the pathways that make coQ10, a vital nutrient for heart health and metaboilsm. There are far better natural methods for dealing with cholesterol than drugs. Just a side note, beware of low levels of cholesterol - this is far more dangerous to your health than high levels; more on this another time.
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"People see the world not as it is, but as they are"
~ Al Lee
Electric Car List
I have long been a fan of electric cars. I may have gotten this from my father who was a member of the Sacramento Valley Electric Auto Association way back in the early 70's. I am thrilled that we are on the verge of seeing easily obtainable electric cars for the general populace at last. Back in the 70's electric cars were all custom backyard projects. No one commercially produced them for city driving. Looks like that is finally changing.
"Winning is not everything,
but the effort to win is."
~ Zig Ziglar
Obesity ops 'raise fracture risk'
Here is one for the "I told you so" department. I have been warning folks for 20 years that bariatric surgery was a bad idea. We need our stomachs to digest our foods. You can't go around willy-nilly cutting them 90% out and not think you are going to have negative consequences. One of the vital functions of the stomach is to acidify minerals so your body can absorb them. Well guess what - twice as many broken bones are happening among those who have had stomach bypass surgeries because of calcium malabsorption. The only reason for this surgery is to make people eat less. I find this surgery to be a massive overkill and do not recommend it to patients. There are better ways to stop eating so much.
"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been." ~ Joseph Brooks
Breast Enhancing Ringtones
This is from the "just plain weird" department. How would anyone even think up this idea? Stranger yet, it appears to actually work...
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. "
~ William James
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About Dr. DeLapp
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Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.
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High Fiber Yogurt
Since today's Health Priority is to ear more fiber, I thought I would share a simple way we use to get more fiber in our diets in a pleasant way. This is also a great snack for folks trying to loose weight as it is low in fat and carbs and yet satisfies that desire for something both sweet and creamy. Now don't get grossed-out by the use of Metamucil. It is a good fiber and gelling agent that turns the yogurt into more of a mousse consistency. The flavoring agent can be most anything you like. I go more for crushed fruit (usually thawed frozen fruit with the juice), or hazelnut flavoring, but if you prefer raw cocoa powder for a serious chocolate blast, go for it. Vanilla is nice, mint, almond flavor, maybe even root beer (one of my next experiments!) We use the goat milk yogurt from Trader Joe's, but any non-fat yogurt will work.
1 quart of non-fat yogurt
2 tsp 2x Stevia/erythritol blend
¾ cup crushed raspberries
2-4 Tbs unflavored smooth
textured Metamucil
Simply blend these ingredients together and let it sit in the fridge overnight so the Metamucil will gel fully and solidify the yogurt/flavoring mixture. Ellen does not like to eat anything heavy after 6 pm, so this combo works great for an evening snack. A cup is all of about a hundred calories and you get some good fiber to boot.
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