Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Organic Food




Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Urinary Metabolites of Organophosphate Pesticides. Bouchard, M. et al., Pediatrics, Volume 125, Number 6, June 2010.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Swine flu pandemic was made up!

This makes me sick.  The millions who got the swine flu shot simply got swindled.  Please read this article out of the British Journal of Medicine, one of the world's most prestigious medical journal.

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/section_pdf/340/jun03_4/c2912.pdf

When do we get tired of Big Pharma killing for profit?

Sunshine

Monday, May 24, 2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Food Revolution

Check this out. Jaimie Oliver, celebrity chef, of all people. He is nailing it. I really admire that.

Check out the video from TED.


See you for your life transforming adjustment!

Dr. Jean-Marc

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Chinese Fluoride in Your Water?

Fluoride


It is my opinion that fluoride is a poison that has no place in our water supply. Now the issue is compounded by possibly tainted Chinese origin. China has worked long and hard to earn the reputation of using poor quality and dangerous to your health ingredients. I see no reason to believe this would be any different.

Solution: get a reverse osmosis water filtration system. I just got a new one from Costco (not made in China I hope).

Dr. Jean-Marc

Monday, March 15, 2010

Subluxations Ruin Your Body

Falling Apart Doesn't Have To Be Painful

During my weekly scientific literature review (keeping up-to-date is work) I ran across an intriguing reference to a 1980 article. I have seen this article referenced numerous times, so I decided to look it up. It was published in the prestigious Spine Journal, vol. 5, number 2 and written by “pain guru” Gunn (he literally wrote the book on the neurology of pain).

Straight to the juicy parts: Gunn describes how trauma to a healthy nerve is usually painless. But significant problems arise over time. The nerve acquires a quality called “denervation supersensitivity” that modifies the signals your body sends to the brain and scrambles the signals the brain sends to the body. Worse, the presence of pain or the intensity of pain is unrelated to the degree of damage. You could be falling into ruin without even knowing it until massive problems are present.

What it means to you: Painless spinal trauma (like a desk job, sleeping wrong...) causes nerve conduction disruption that can have devastating long-term effects on your glands and organs. Therefore, it is essential to have your spine checked by your chiropractor on a regular basis to correct the problem in order to maintain health, function and wellbeing. And if the spinal trauma actually was painful at the time, run, don’t walk to the chiropractor, because your central nervous system functions are compromised and you are starting to fall apart!

See you soon for your essential-for-a-long-healthy-life check-up.

Dr. Jean-Marc

Prespondylosis and some pain syndromes following denervation supersensitivity. CC Gunn. Spine, vol.2, number 2, March/April 1980

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Neck Misalignment Hurt Your Heart

An article published in a journal that is the sure cure to insomnia describes in detail (and I mean detail) the link and pathogenesis of heart disease from upper cervical subluxations.

They even mention specifically that this neurochemical pathway explains why studies have shown that chiropractic adjustments help lower blood pressure.

In plain English: neck subluxations alter brain function leading to heart problems; and chiropractic adjustments are a uniquely effective way to restore optimal function and health.


Chiropractic really keeps you ticking!


Dr. Jean-Marc

Monday, September 21, 2009

Student Survival Tool Kit

If it's good for my son, it's probably good for you too.

As Alain was preparing to go away to college, I assembled a kit of vitamins and supplements for him to take. I realized that the number had to be minimal and instructions laid out simply. Yet, I wanted to cover as much ground as possible.

The goal here is to promote general health and wellness. I identified some of the challenges a student might encounter. Therefore, the supplements had to effectively deal with the destructive impact of stress, erratic sleep patterns, possible toxins. They also must prime the immune systems.

So I came up with a short list of supplements and an equally short user's manual. Since everyone who hears of this "tool kit" wants to have it, I am posting it here for all to enjoy and benefit from.

Alain’s Supplements
:

  • Omega 3. Take 2 daily
  • Co-Factors. Take 1 with omega 3.
  • Complete Glutathione or NAC. Take 2 when you want to cleanse toxins, after strenuous exercise, lack of sleep. PRN.
  • OPC Pinegold. Immune booster. Take 2 when you feel that you are coming down with something. Take 2 every 1-2 hours if you are sick.
  • Arnica. Melt 2 pellets under tongue after physical trauma. Every hour for up to 24 hours.
  • Sabadil. Allergies. PRN.
  • Multi. Take 1-2 daily.
That's it. 3 supplements daily and a couple of "just in case".

Since I want Alain to have the best, cleanest products, I carefully selected the brands of each of these products. The first 3 and the multi are from Nutri-West. OPC is the brand name. Call my office to order any of these . Sabadil and Arnica Montana are homeopathics from Boiron and can be found at Whole Foods and better health food stores..

Dr. Jean-Marc

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Health Care Cost up 131%

BE Healthy!

When I see these numbers, I get more and more convinced that shuffling who pays for health care is not the answer. Isn't it time to actually BE healthy?

This is a quote from Dr. Gerry Clum, President of Life Chiropractic College West.

"Mid-September also brings us an annual report from the Kaiser Family Foundation on the cost of health care insurance in the United States. In the past year, premiums have risen 5% and, in the past decade, they have risen 131%. This is in contrast to an increase in wages over the past decade of 38% and an inflation rate of 28% for the period. This means health care costs rose at a rate 4.67 times as great as inflation. Some other numbers from the KFF folks...if family coverage increases at a rate of 6.1%, as anticipated, by 2019, the annual cost of the average family's health care insurance will be $24,000...this year, the average individual cost was $4,824 and the average family cost was $13,375...60% of employers provide coverage, down from 66% a decade ago...more than 40% of employers indicated they would be shifting more health insurance cost to the employee...on average, employers pay 74% of the cost of family coverage. The full report from the Kaiser Family Foundation can be found at www.kff.org."

I know from personal experience that MA cost are substantially higher. Now you know why the family budget just doesn't allow as nice a car or as exotic a vacation as it used to. But for some, it is cutting into healthful endeavors like a gym membership, unprocessed food, stress reducing activities. It is fascinating to see how rising health care cost has become a clear cause of poorer health. More on that in a later post...

Dr. Jean-Marc

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

School on Wheels


Thanks to your generosity, our School on Wheels donation program was a great success. Thank you for all your donations of school supplies for Massachusetts homeless kids. Our school bus boxes were overflowing with backpacks (like the cute Hello Kitty you can see my patient Marie and me trying on), pens, pads, folders, binders, notebooks, pencils, staplers, rulers...

A big thank you to all of you who participated and donated generously!

Dr. Jean-Marc