“Let your food be your medicine and your medicine your food.” Hippocrates

Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants. 
 
Brilliance! Fundamental! Back to Basics! A must read and therefore it tops the current list of gotta have books! Michael Pollan does a phenomenal job of relaying how we veered from a group of people who ate food [...]

American Prescription Drug Use 

“The average number of prescriptions [drugs] per 
person, annually, in 1993 was seven. 
The average number of prescriptions [drugs] per 
person, annually, in 2000 was eleven. 
[The average number of prescriptions drugs per 
person], annually, in 2004 was twelve. 
The total number of annual prescriptions [drugs] in 
the United States now stands at about 3 billion. 
The cost per year [...]

Whole Spine Quote 

“We tend to divide the examination of the spine into regions: cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine clinical studies. 
This is a mistake. 

The three units are closely interrelated structurally and functionally – a whole person with a whole spine.  The cervical spine may be symptomatic because of a thoracic or lumbar spine abnormality, and vice versa! 
Sometimes treating a lumbar spine [...]

Treatment of Intervertebral Disc Herniation With 
Manipulation 

“Manipulation.  Some orthopaedic surgeons practice manipulation in an effort at repositioning the disc.  This treatment is regarded as controversial and a form of quackery by many men.  However, the author has attempted the maneuver in patients who did not respond to bed rest and were regarded as candidates for surgery.  Occasionally, the results was dramatic. 

Technique. [...]

Whiplash Litigation Neurosis 

“Some patients in the author’s study had associated injuries.  In addition to injuring their necks, they sprained their ankles or broke their wrists.  Normal painless function returned to their ankles and wrists in the expected period of time. These patients did not complain for month after month about painful ankles or wrists, but they did still complain of neck pain.  [...]

Vehicle Size and Speed Quote 

“Acceleration depends on the force applied and the inertia of the vehicle that has been struck. The force is dependent upon the weight and speed of the striking vehicle, so that a streetcar 
traveling as 3 mph can apply as much force and initiate the same degree of acceleration as a compact car traveling at 40 mph.” 

Ian [...]

Vehicle Damage v. Passenger Injury 

“The amount of damage sustained by the car bears little relationship to the force applied.  To take an extreme example: If the car was struck in concrete, the damage sustained might be very great but the occupants would not be injured because the car could not move forward, whereas, on ice, the damage to the car could [...]

Acceleration Of Degenerative Disc Disease Following 
Whiplash Injuries 
“Follow-up roentgenograms taken an average of 7 years after 
injury in one series of patients without prior roentgenographic 
evidence of disc disease indicated that 39% had developed 
degenerative disc disease at one or more disc levels since 
injury.” 
There was an expected incidence of 6% degenerative change 
in the population over this period of time. 
“Thus, [...]

Toxic Fat 
Barry Sears, PhD 
2008 

“The underlying cause of chronic disease comes from increased production of a 
natural fatty acid called arachidonic acid (AA), which can be incredibly toxic at high 
concentrations. This is the toxic fat that is key to not only understanding our obesity 
epidemic but also providing the linkage between obesity and chronic disease.” P. 2 
“Classic inflammation [...]

Onwards and Upwards you ask?  The theme of our Wellness blog will attempt to encapsulate is how we as humans progress, adapt, and evolutionize into an improving species that is “Seeking Higher Ground!”  It is our innate desire as a people to do what is right, just, moral, and therefore advancing forward.  In this case, [...]