FACTS ABOUT LIPITOR

- Lipitor is manufactured by Pfizer. It is the world’s largest selling drug and was the first drug to reach $10 billion in worldwide sales. It has earned Pfizer close to $50 billion in revenue since 2000

- 60 known side effects include stomach pains, abnormal heartbeat, back pain, chest pain, constipation, decreased sex drive, diarrhea, distorted facial muscles, fatigue, headaches, joint pain, lack of coordination, leg cramps/spasms, muscle aching/weakness/wasting away, tingling. Numbness of hands, arms, legs and feet (known as “neuropathy,” and unstable emotions.

- New guidelines issued recently come from 9 “cholesterol experts,” six of which received consulting or speaking fees/income, research 

money or other support from the makers of widely used anti-cholesterol drugs. 

- Elevated cholesterol is a sign of hypothyroidism. Low thyroid inhabits the absorption of B Vitamins. Instead of putting Lipitor in your body to lower Natural Cholesterols, why not deal with thyroid function and see if that is the answer? (Get to the cause of the problem,now there’s and idea. 

-Drug companies now want cholesterol drugs to be used with children as young as 8 years old. If only 10% of those children were prescribed Lipitor, it would generate an extra$2.5 billion in sales per year! (Do you think the drug company might push this for an extra $2 billion per year?!!)

Can Chiropractic Adjustments Help Your Arthritis?

Got a quick question for you. Is arthritis affecting your quality of life? Chiropractic is a healthy alternative.

I feel that getting regular chiropractic care does help, so the answer to that question is a resounding YES! Let’s take a look and see WHY and HOW.

            There are TWO different conditions known as “arthritis”. By definition, “arthritis” is inflammationof the joints. (If you have any kind of inflammation, I strongly recommend a product called “INFLAMMATION”, which you can get here at the office.) But, there are actually two kinds of “arthritis”.

            First, there’s osteoarthritis, sometimes referred to as “wear and tear” arthritis. This includes DJD r Degenerative Joint Disease. Then, there are several variations of rheumatoid arthritis. 

            Osteoarthritis or “wear and tear arthritis” is just that, a sort of wearing a way of your join(s) which over time will take its toll on how you act, feel, and move. It typically shows up as you age (only because you’re NOT doing the right things, or you did the wrong things when you were younger and now they’re showing up later in life) OR after years of excessive use, say from a job, or you do something respectively that causes a wear on your joint. 

             Many people tell me “The orthopedist told me the disc in my neck and low back worn down because of my age.” My response is “Well, how old are the other discs in your spine? I think they’re all the same age, so why did one of them wear out faster than the other ones?” 

            DJD or osteoarthritis of the spine, is usually caused by bones in the spine that are NOT in alignment and/or postural distortions. If the front end of your car is misaligned, it’s going to wear out the tires, no matter how careful you drive. 

            The discs (like the tires on that care I just mentioned) wear away and your body tries to stabilize the area. On x-ray this reaction looks like little bone spurs. It’s actually the body trying to “fuse” these vertebrae in order to protect you. Usually the problem is not noticed until the disc is about gone and the spurs (or osteophytes) start to press on nerves, causing pain.

            The standard medical approach to “wear and tear “arthritis is self-medication with over-the-counter painkillers and NSAIDS, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like Tylenol, Advil, etc. If not resolved the right way, you can end up on steroids or prescription painkillers that can lead to addiction.

            The eventual medical solution is surgery, sometimes very risky surgery with long-term consequences. The other type of arthritis, called Rheumatoid arthritis, is am inflammatory autoimmune condition that causes pain, swelling and disfiguration, usually easily seen in the hands.As with most autoimmune conditions, the cause is unknown, so no one really KNOWS for sure what causes this.

            Yet, medical treatments start with over-the-counter painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs, then prescription painkillers, then immunosuppressant drugs. The mandatory warnings on these drugs warn you of infection, disease and even death

Aspartame Is Dangerous for Everyone (AKA NurtaSweet)

“I know that the average consumer has a devil-may-care-something-is-gonna-to-kill-me… but they don’t realize that before THIS stuff kills they are going to have a miserable declining existence with LOTS of pain and other problems (not to mention cancer, tumors, and maybe even Alzheimer or similar things) before death solves the problem.”

-      An Aspartame Victim

Long-Term Damage

It appears to cause slow, silent damage in those unfortunate enough to not have immediate reactions and a reason to avoid it. It may take one year, five years, 10 years, or 40 years, but it seems to cause some reversible and some irreversible changes in health over long-term use. 

Brain Cancer

Aspartame caused large brain tumors in life-long animal experiments at a dose that could be considered within the “Acceptable Daily Intake” limit after adjusting for differences in metabolism of aspartames breakdown products between humans and rodents. 

Uterine Polyps

Pre-approval experiments showed that an aspartame breakdown product caused uterine polyps in experimental animals.  

Posture is the Window to the Spine

Which one of these looks like you?

Have you seen someone whos head sits way far forward off their chest and shoulder? This is called, "forward head posture," it is dangerous! It reduced proper nerve function from the brain to the rest of the body, decreasing your good health potential. For every 1" of forward head position, there's an extra 10 pounds of stress on the neck, leading to early degeneration and to early death. When your posture fails, your joints suffer! So many people shrug off poor posture as if it was like biting their fingernails. Bad posture will cause accelerated arthritis and rapid degeneration that is irreversible. Regular adjustments promote better posture and prevent degeneration.

Dr. Singleton shares low back exercise for beginners.

Here is a simple exercise that you can do at home with no equipment. It works your multifidus, erector spinae, transverse abdominus, oblique muscles. The good thing is, you don't have to go to a gym to do this exercise and it's going to help stabilize your loser back and feel better.
The purpose of this exercise is to increase your low back strength and muscular endurance which will help you with any loser back pain or discomfort.
By doing this simple exercise you will also have the benefits of improved stability more functional strength and you'll help prevent any future injuries, so it's a great exercise to do every day

Begin by laying on your back. Extend your arms above head flat on floor. activate your core and your knees above your hips and maintain a 90/90 hip knee position like you see in the picture. Now, activate your core. Lift one arm off the floor and raise it towards ceiling  until it's above shoulder level while simultaneously extending one leg downward towards floor. Pause momentarily. Return to start position, alternating sides. This core activation  should be maintained throughout the entire exercise. Repeat this for 10 repetitions and do 2 sets of ten. Then you're done.

Get Alkaline, Get Healthy

Do you remember high school chemistry class when we learned about pH? It provides a measure between 0 (almost acidic) and +1 (most alkaline). Our body sits near a normal pH of about 7.6. Research has shown us that inflammation and disease, including heart disease and cancer, occur in more acidic environments. Our current day diets of common sense would tell  us, then, that better health and body healing will come from and alkaline environment. So the question is, how do we make our bodies more alkaline? The following are some ways you can help your body return

1. Eat more vegetables, beans and nuts. Increase green, leafy foods.
2. reduce acidic foods, including red meats, eggs, carbs and refined sugar.
3. Reduce or stop alcohol intake and greatly increase  alkaline water Most alkaline water has a pH near 9 while regular water or tap water is near 6.5 to 7.0.
4.Increase alkaline drinks, such as lemon water or peppermint tea.
5. Exercise at  least 30 minutes 4-5x a week.
6. Stress can contribute to acid build-up. so jump into yoga, meditation and other deep breathing techniques to help you relax and "de-stress."

Keep in mind, if you eat healthier foods and drink more water, your acidic body will move towards alkaline. This will decrease inflammation  in the body. This in turn will promote healing in your body of many conditions and maladies affecting you right now. If you are diagnosed with cancer, it just may be the thing that improves your health and saves your life.

The Secret Statistic

There's one medical statistic doctors don't much talk about despite it's importance. It's called "number needed to treat," or NNT. It's measure developed in the past 20 years, and it's one of the best-kept statistical secrets in medicine.
The idea of NNT is simple enough. Most clinical trials look at how much better people do on a particular medicine. NNT answers the question: how many people have to take a particular drug to avoid one incidence of a medical issue (such as heart attack, or recurrence of cancer)? For example, if a drug had an NNT of 50 for heart attacks, then 50 people have to take the drug in order to prevent one heart attack. That doesn't sound like a lot, so pharmaceutical companies tend to keep the number quiet and focus on broader, U.S. population-based statistics. But that could be changed if you ask for the NNT up front the next time you're handed a prescription.

When the NNT statistic was first developed in 1988, it was intended to help you make a decision about whether or not to take a drug. After all, having it put in simple terms such as "out of every 50 people who take this drug, perhaps one heart attack will be prevented, and the other 49 will receive no benefit," puts things into perspective...a perspective that the drug companies do not want you to see. One of the most blatant examples of how drug companies have hidden NNT for their own self-serving purposes lies with cholesterol drugs. These drugs, which can cause side effects like liver damage, muscle weakness, cognitive impairment and many side effects like liver damage, muscle weakness, cognitive impairment and many others, are touted as miracle pills that can slash your risk of a heart attack by more than one third.
Well, "business week" actually did a story on this very topic earlier this year, and they found the real numbers right on Pfizer's own newspaper ad for the cholesterol lowering drug "Lipitor."
Upon first glance, the ad boasts that Lipitor reduces heart attacks by 36 percent. But there is an asterisk. And when you follow the asterisk, you find the following in much smaller type: "That means in a large clinical study, 3% of patients taking a sugar pill or placebo had a heart attack compared to 2% of patients taking Lipitor/"
What this means is that for every 100 people  who took the drug over 3.3 years, three people on placebos, and two people on Lipitor, had heart attacks. That means that taking Lipitor resulted in just one fewer heart attacks  per 100 people.
What if you put 250 people in a room and told them they would each pay $1,000 a year for a drug they would heave to take every day, that many would get diarrhea an muscle pain, and that 249 would have no benefit? and that they could do just as well by exercising? How many would take that?

Headaches and the Neck

"orthopedic surgeons and neurologists studied 100 headache prone children. They tested children because so many adult patients traced their chronic headaches back to childhood and because children wrestle with each other, fall off bicycles or sleds or get inured in sports. Pain and stiffness in the neck disappear in a day or two and the injury is forgotten. But that slight injury can be -permanent, and flower periodically into headaches.

By stretching and putting the neck into traction using a 4-7 lbs. weights,  97% of the children improved after a 20 year follow up."
Does this sound like new exciting recent research to you? It was completed and released to the public in 1970! After nearly 50 years, we are no closer to accepting that most headaches start from neck problems! It need not be treated by aspirin, pills, injections, prescriptions or surgery. When will we learn? Or will we? I'm not sure any longer...