As a little review of how healthy you are, print off the surveys below and bring them in Monday and I can give you a fresh analysis of what your health status is and what direction to go from here.  Monday the 8th is the ONLY day you can drop these off.  If you check off any of these boxes I encourage you to drop them off sometime Monday or if you can’t get to the office, then email them.  If you aren’t a patient I still may be able to help give you some guidance.  Whoever gets these in my hands on Monday February 8th gets top priority.  We still have 2-3 months to make your health awesome.  This is my free gift.

Symptom Survey

Toxicity Survey

Dr. Altman’s Fun Fingernail Survey

Full issue at www.docaltman.com

Inside this issue:

1. Acid stopping drugs and how they are associated with broken bones.

2. The real cause of heartburn

3. Swine Flu News

4. Extreme dangers of taking estrogen drugs

5. 120 days to curing diabetes

6. Why “studies” can be dangerous

7. Good old water info.

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“Well son, I think you should dig ditches because you don’t have the smarts to do….”

You can fill in the rest.

I think a guidance counselor should be renamed to a dream counselor.  I know that is a way too lame name, but I couldn’t come up with anything else.

I think we as adults could use a dream counselor visit every 6 months.  I know that sounds like a MLM training class, but it could be useful.  I need help calling it something else, but the idea is sound.  Dream just conotates  something that isn’t really possible.  My dreams of flying aren’t going to happen.

A goal is often too vague, ie…I want a new car.
Lame… For starters it is too general.  What kind of car, make, model, color, year, MPG, trim, and when do you want it by and how are you going to obtain it.  It has to have a deadline.  I think you can skip this as well.

You son- need a mission.   What are you willing to die for.  That may be extreme, but you get the idea.  You need something that will get you out of bed and ready to take off.  If someone beat you to a pulp, what would give you reason to get back up.  If you have that kind of mission and desire nothing else will matter.  You will make it happen.  I wish my guidance counselor would have helped me find my mission.

Hiking your way to the future.

I love to hike in the mountains with my family.  The mountains along with the ocean really give me the perspective of being insignificant and humble.  I think that is why some of the best CEO’s still backpack.  It keeps you in perspective.  Your mission is like a long trail through the woods.

Pick a path and stay on it until it is complete, or you realize that you want a different path with a better view.  If you read the Robert Frost poem “The road not taken”, yesterday, he made the clear observation that “way leads on to way”.  You will never go back to who you were and will likely never go back to where you started from.

If you don’t have a trail, map, compass, or GPS, and are just going out in the woods for a 8 hour hike.  There is a good chance most people will be hopelessly lost.  Even if you have a trail, the more you wander off, the more likely you are to get lost.  This is you life.  What path are you walking on?  The more you wander the less likely you will complete your mission.

What is your direction?____________________

Your path?___________________________
Why are you getting out of bed?________________________________

Is that a good enough reason?______________________________

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This is pretty bold to do but you can do it by the time you are done reading.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t apply to world peace or personal freedom for people living in North Korea.  But, many people feel the turmoil around them, whether that is personal crisis’s or a friend or coworker.  So many problems.

For your health, now more than ever, is a great time to start some new habits.  Depending on endless factors your personal peace could be tough to come by, but there is always one place to find it.  Your head.  Mine may be filled with rocks and sand.  But even sand can be at peace.  The interesting thing about your mind is that it has no boundaries and no weight.  You can’t see it or touch it.

It makes my head hurt just trying to think about it.  Your mind can be an instant escape to freedom.  It has been said that your mind can’t tell the difference between reality and something vividly imagined.  It has incredible power.  Let’s turn it on, or at least put some reigns on it.

    #1 Your mind controls everything you do.

    #2 Therefore everything is a choice.

An interesting insight to choice is the poem by Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken“.  Most people assume it is an inspirational poem based on the last few lines

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

Go and read the whole thing and both paths “had worn them really about the same”.
The author / hiker just made a choice and followed it.  It is a poem of irony and really about making a choice.

For those of you who were at my last class, (thanks for all the kind “thank you’s”) in that handout was a daily menu from Ed Foreman.  His classes are about how to have a great day, everyday, no matter what.  He advocates “choice”  You really get to choose how you interpret the events of your life.  Next time you feel angry, stop for a moment and think about what your mind is doing.  Do you really have to spew out venom?

Unless you have some control over your thoughts Habits and Cravings will dominate.  If you put chocolate cake, ice cream, suckers, and broccoli in from of 100 kids and give them a choice of what they would like to eat.  I’ll bet 95% of them will not choose broccoli.  They are too young to really make good choices, their minds aren’t trained.  Unfortunately about 65% of adults are the same way.  What do you buy when grocery shopping?  Is your cart loaded with pop, and frozen dinners, or fresh fruit and veggies?

Your mind is the invisible extension of your body’s energy.  A strong healthy mind can give you a strong healthy body.  I often see patients under-appreciate this powerful asset to health.  If you believe that you are going to be sick, you are likely to get sick one way or another.  I’m getting pretty good at telling whether a patient will get better (no matter what they have) based on the first 5 minutes of talking to them.  Their mind power and desire to get better makes all the difference.  I am just a facilitator to health.  The real healing is done inside the person.

Your mind can’t do everything.  When a bone is physically knocked out of position by an outside force.  It takes an outside force (me) to put it back.  Once it is back in place, then the power of the person takes over.

Put your mind on the path to control.

#1 Put good things in, so you get good things out.  Read inspirational things, stop reading the newspaper.  Watch nice TV or NO TV.  Watching horror shows, constant killing, desperate people sleeping around, and terror (wait that’s just the news) doesn’t make a good mind.  T.V. commercials alone could give you nightmares.  Don’t watch that stuff before you go to bed.

#2 Monitor what comes out.  Until your mind is under control and filled with good stuff, don’t pollute the people around you.  No one else is inside your head.  You alone have a choice to live in a pigpen or paradise.

#3 Spend 5 minutes in quiet and let your mind roam and wander.  Just let it go and follow along.  It is amazing where it will take you.

…qualify for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia  was Mary Beth Larsen (she came in 4^th).   She is the first U.S. female pentathlete. The Pentathlon is a grueling competition of 5 events in one day- swimming, air pistol shooting, running, riding, and fencing.  She has used chiropractic care her whole life to stay in good condition.

Dr. Altman & Mary Beth Larsen

“The biggest benefit I have received from chiropractic care is that I haven’t had to take much time off from training to recover from injuries.  Regular maintenance care combined with more intense care when I’m injured has helped me to compete at a higher level – without missing important training time…If my knee twinges or if something hurts in my hip, I know I can get it adjusted, and it will be fine.” She said in a recent interview.

She continues to tell her story about her chiropractic care growing up. 

“I’ve been adjusted my whole life.  My great uncle and several cousins were chiropractors.  So I’ve really been under chiropractic care since I was very little.  As a child I would get sick a lot with sore throats.  So my dad suggested we get treated.  Back then the whole family could get treated for about $30 a month!  We’d all line up and get adjusted.  I’ll never forget those days.  I remember after a while I just didn’t get sick any more.”
-excerpt from an interview with Dr. Frank Corbo

This is the interview I did with her about her supplement use.  I thought it was interesting what an Olympic athlete noticed about her supplement use.

1.What Standard Process (SP) Products do you take?
2.Why did you start taking SP vs. other supplements?
-why is SP different?
3.How long have you taken them?
4.What difference have you noticed with performance or general health?

Mary Beth’s response –

“ANYWAY…I would be happy to answer your questions. “

1.  I currently am taking Cyrofood, Cyruta Plus, Wheat Germ Oil Fortified, Symplex F, Ovatrophin PMG, Linum B6, Drenamin, Myotrophin PMG, Zymex and Lact Enz.  I will soon be adding Diaplex after I finish my Zymex and Lact Enz.  Plus I use SP Complete every morning in a smoothie and eat Standard Bars for between -meal snacks.

2.  I started taking SP when I was participating in a 10 day-long bike trek from St Louis to Orlando, FL (we averaged about 100 miles per day).  We took SP products to keep us going and healthy.  After the trip, I liked the product so well and felt so much better taking them that I continued with the program.  It was really the first time I had such results from “vitamins”.

3.  I began taking SP in 1997  and probably will always use SP products!!

4.  The biggest difference I notice is when I stop taking them for whatever reason (or when I have forgotten/got lazy) is that I feel much more fatigued than when I stick with my program. If I have missed my supplements, I notice my menstrual periods are more painful and disrupt my training ( not good for anyone, but particularly athletes).  When I take my supplements, I also notice that my digestion is better and I don’t have as many problems (yeast, acne, muscle aches/pains, gas, heartburn).  SP has done wonders for me in the time I have taken the products and I have every confidence that I am taking the highest quality supplements I can.

Sincerely,

Mary Beth Larsen