From www.mercola.com:

Give your child a head start in life. Supplement with Krill oil before and during pregnancy, and while breast-feeding. The DHA and choline are critical to your child’s brain development and IQ. Your child is wholly dependent upon you to provide those nutrients through at least the first three months of life. Incidentally, this also supports your overall health and positive mental outlook both during and just after pregnancy.

Breast-feed your child if at all possible, for as long as possible. Infants receive vital DHA through your breast milk. Longer is better, in this case. If you can continue breast-feeding through the first year, you will give your child an even greater head start for success in life.

Provide structure for your child’s life. Children like a dependable schedule — regular times for meals, bedtimes, getting up times, and more. It helps them understand time, routines, and gives them a sense of security.

Be sure your child eats a diet strong with high-quality (organic if possible) meats and veggies. Early influence in training your child’s taste buds to like veggies will make it easier for them to resist the peer pressure of junk food throughout childhood. Avoid sweets, and every food with artificial colorings, preservatives, and high fructose corn syrup, at all cost.

Encourage your child from a young age to get daily exercise. Make it a part of your special time with them. Go for walks and bike rides, play badminton, take your dog for a run, jump rope, shoot baskets… and make it fun!

Provide clean inside air by not smoking, and by limiting toxins from cleaning products. If your home was built before 1978, test for lead paint hazards.

Strengthen your child’s immune system by giving them a probiotic daily. When everyone else’s kid is struggling with the latest bug to hit their school, you’ll be glad yours has a strong immune system.

Replace detergents, soaps, and shampoos containing risky ingredients, like parabens, mineral oil, paraffin, petrolatum, Sodium laurel or lauryl sulfate (SLS), sodium laureth sulfate (SLES), Acrylamide, Propylene glycol. The potential problems may not be worth the risk.

Just say “no” to immunizations vaccinations. They provide more health risks than benefits. You can read more about this elsewhere on this website (www.nvic.org), and an entire chapter is devoted to it in Take Control of Your Health.

Get your child outside in the sunshine for at least 15 minutes per day, preferably in mid-day, to optimize his or her vitamin D levels and thereby his/her immune and overall health.

- I would add one more: Get your kids checked for spinal subluxation!

Dr. CHRIS

One of the most disheartening conditions I encounter in clinical practice is migraines.

If you have ever known a child who suffers from migraines you will see someone with intense pain who spends hours in a dark room crying out, completely debilitated and unable to function.

These kids are often forced to miss school, they can’t participate in sports or even go outside to play. Meanwhile, parents do the best they can to make their child more comfortable in between episodes.

Migraines are vascular headaches that stem from the large blood vessels around the brain. They are throbbing headaches usually accompanied by nausea, vomiting, light and sound sensitivity. Unfortunately, this is an all too common problem with 10% of migraine sufferers under the age of 15.

A recent study found that there was good news for child migraine sufferers — symptoms for half of all sufferers generally disappear after 10 years.

Unfortunately, these children had to suffer for more than 10 years with one of the worst pains imaginable, heavily medicated, often fighting side effects of those medications and these so-called experts said: “Don’t worry, half of you will feel better in 10 years.”

In my opinion, that is not good enough, especially when you consider chiropractors have been successfully treating migraines for more than a hundred years. I have had countless cases where children and adults alike have suffered for years with migraines, seen every specialist in town, taken all the drugs and have had zero results until chiropractic.

The reason for this is simple: I have observed that the vast majority of these children have had some type of head or neck trauma early on, which misaligns the upper part of the spine. The resulting pressure on the delicate nerves in the upper neck cause blood vessels around the brain to spasm. In these cases, other treatments did not work because the underlying cause, the misalignment, was corrected.

Chiropractors use gentle adjustments to provide relief to migraine sufferers. If you haven’t already, you need to try chiropractic. The results speak for themselves.

Here is an important story recounted in one of Dr. BJ Palmer’s “Green Books”:

“In the early 20th century, Dr. Charles Mayo, physician, surgeon, and co-founder of the famed Mayo Brothers Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, brought his wife for treatment to the Dr. B.J. Palmer Chiropractic Research Clinic in Davenport, Iowa.  Dr. Mayo had taken his wife to other physicians, including doctors in Europe, all distinguished diagnosticians and specialists. Dr. P.L. Poulsen of the BJPCC staff informed me that those medical specialists had agreed upon a diagnosis which was Osteochondromatosis of the knee joint. They had tried everything medical to heal Mrs. Mayo, but all treatment had failed.

Dr. Mayo brought his wife to Dr. Palmer for his Chiropractic professional services. He addressed Dr. Palmer as Mr. Palmer. To this Dr. Palmer replied: “This is a case of Greek meeting Greek; a test of steel against steel; a test of our simple Chiropractic principle and practice against your complex medical theories and experiments.” Dr. Palmer ordered spinographs taken of Mrs. Mayo’s spine. “Mr. Palmer, why are you only taking spinal x-rays?” queried Dr. Mayo.  “Because, we are going to locate the vertebral Subluxation cause of her sickness, so we can correctly adjust it.” replied Dr. Palmer. Dr. Mayo rejoined, “There is no such thing, and if there were, you could not adjust it by hand only.” “Dr. Mayo,” Dr. Palmer said to the world-renowned clinician, “while you are here, we are going to ask you to keep your mouth shut.”

Dr. Palmer performed readings with the neurocalometer and neurocalograph and then analyzed the patient’s spinographs. Afterward, he gave her an upper cervical Chiropractic adjustment to release spinal cord compression from the vertebral occlusion in her spinal canal. After the Chiropractic adjustment, Dr. Mayo asked, “Is that all you are going to do? What is wrong with my wife? Where is she sick? What is your diagnosis?” Dr. Palmer replied, “We do not know. What is more, we do not care.” “You are a very ignorant man,” retorted Dr. Mayo. “We are ignorant of everything you think we should know,” countered Dr. Palmer.

After a pause, Dr. Palmer spoke again. “You, too, are a very ignorant man. You are ignorant of everything we think you should know about the cause of disease in the backbone of sick people. We know cause; you know there is a difference or you would not be here. That is the difference in your approach, which has done your wife no good, and our approach, which will get your wife well.” “That remains to be seen,” Dr. Mayo replied. Dr. Palmer continued: “I am ignorant of everything you think I should know about disease of the sick. You know all this, and what good has it done your wife? The fact that you brought her here proves your methods have failed. Because of reports of the success of our methods of vertebral Subluxation and adjustment, you brought your wife here to us.”

Mrs. Mayo received Chiropractic care for several months and went home well. Dr. Mayo stated it was impossible for her to get well with what Palmer did, yet he also admitted she was well.  Dr. Palmer expounded: “Medical doctors are concerned in knowing everything about effects, while Chiropractors are vitally concerned in the cause in the backbone and how to correct it. What a difference between medical care and Chiropractic care! A patient can come to the B.J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic and be deaf, dumb, and blind not telling or indicating anything and we could and would locate the cause of whatever, wherever he had it; we adjust him and send him home well. It is as simple as that.”

Although “Dr. Charlie” had passed away in 1939, during that time, 60 to 80 percent of our patients were referred by “someone” on the staff of the Mayo Clinic. “

References:
BJ Palmer, DC, PhC. Volume XXXII.

Many of my patients ask me why I focus so much attention on the upper neck. The fact is a subluxation the upper cervical spine interferes with healing and can cause your body to malfunction and develop disease and illness.

Here are some quotes from independent research regarding the upper cervical spine:

• “Loss of cervical (neck) curve stretches the spinal cord 5 to 7 cm and produces pathological tension, putting the body in a state of disease.”  – Alfred Breig, MD
• Decreased blood flow from abnormal posture which is major factor in ALL DISEASE, including cancer. Reich (MD) 1974:
• Decreased curves & spinal position, affect heart, lungs & digestive system Calliet (MD):
• Winsor (MD): 212 Autopsies 100% disease in spine to disease in organs
• Faulty posture caused WEAK immune system, organ disease, mm. tension, and increased sensitivity to pain. Korr 1979:
• Posture deviation: intestinal diverticula’s, osteoporosis, hip/foot deformities, overall poor health & quality of life, Shortened life span. Freeman 1997:
• Cut off spinal movement(somato-sensory) info to brain the brain will reach COMA states – Dr. James Chestnut
• The more structurally distorted we are the less energy we have for metabolism, healing and thinking –Sperry 1982 NPP
• Research shows that a loss or increase in spinal curves, increases mortality (speeds up death) and takes up to 14 years off your life.”                                                                                  -Spine-Vol 30, Nov 1

Most people would agree that if you had an artery that was 90% blocked, you would probably want to know about it right away. However, when it comes to the nervous system, many people are walking around with nerves that are blocked and malfunctioning and don’t even know it!

The only way to know if you have subluxation is through chiropractic examination ONLY. Pain is not a good indicator because only 6% of the nerves in your body are designed to feel pain. The other 94% are there to run, heal and repair your organs and tissues.

If you have not had your spine checked for subluxations lately, give us a call at 477-5433.