Dr. Kurt Perkins

Debt and Death by Thin Mint

2012-01-26T16:42:00.001-07:00

There is a conspiracy that I’m hoping to crack that has the potential to take the economic woes of our nation even deeper and be a horrible threat to our national security. The worst part is that no politician on either side of the table has any idea it’s happening. Could this mean they are all in on it too?

Do you remember the original Men in Black with Will Smith where he’s doing the shooting in the secret building and the only pop up he shoots is the cutout of the little girl in the dark alley with a quantum physics book? My conspiracy theory is along those same lines. It involves little girls that look innocent but carry a big weapon. You might know those weapons as Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, or even Do-Si-Dos.

All I can say is that you better be aware and you better be prepared. It’s about to get real. Those Girl Scouts are up to no good, in the name of doing good, which is the hardest conspiracy to uncover. Weapon of choice? A little innocent cookie that many have grown to love, crave, and even hoard. I think the conspiracy is covered so well that the girls themselves and even their parents have no idea the ramifications of their contribution.

It all started almost a century ago. The earliest mention of a cookie sale surrounding the Girl Scouts organization was in 1917. Over the next few years, the momentum sky rocketed and in 1922, The American Girl magazine was published at Girl Scout national headquarters in Chicago. In the publication was a recipe given to the council’s 2000 Girl Scouts. I’ve uncovered the ingredients of the recipe. I have not included baking instructions as this information in the wrong hands could mean devastation (Paula Deen).

An Early Girl Scout Cookie^® Recipe

1 cup butter
1 cup sugar plus additional amount for topping (optional)
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder

Here’s the not-so-uncanny connection. Insulin, the hormone to regulate blood sugar was also discovered in 1922 (in Toronto). Could this just be a coincidence? The same year insulin is ‘discovered’ is the same year the Girl Scouts put out an official magazine? It’s like the Journal of American Medical Association. Once thought a reputable research magazine, now shown to be a haven for pharmaceutical influenced research.

The Girl Scouts are a perfect cover up for a potential drug company who can profit off the marketing of insulin. I’ve yet to discover the drug company responsible for this act of slow drawn out terrorism but because of the timing of the whole coincidence, I’m guessing they originate from Germany or maybe even Canada. Those Canadians hate living in the shadow of the US.

By pedaling little girls to push sugar filled substances that are irresistible to the majority of the public, it provides the perfect ‘hook’ for people to get addicted to sugar and eventually wear out their pancreas. What’s the savior? Injectable insulin (only distributed by the mysterious drug company) so you can keep enjoying those little bundles of sugar without going into a diabetic coma.

Fast forward almost 100 years and we are left with hundreds of thousands of innocent girls that don’t even know they are pharmaceutical reps in training. The girls are having fun learning to run a business and practice confrontation. A perfect non-profit front, much the American Society of ________(insert disease). If they can sell cookies to absolute strangers, they can definitely push drug samples to doctors willing to take bribes of fancy meals, trips, and even cash.

With an administration that pushes for more tax payer funded health care to take care of all the diabetics we are left sicker and broker than ever before. This is text book terrorism. Ruining a country by making the citizens die early. It’s just a manner of time before that 3 finger Girl Scout symbol turns into those three fingers on an outstretched arm in front of the little girl’s body. Heil Shortcake.

We need a solution. Obviously you can’t just start flipping over Girl Scout display tables outside of your local grocery store in the name of national safety (though I’ve been tempted). People will think you’re crazy. Instead we have to go about this civilized, in a non-discretionary manner. It will be hard and take millions to join. It’s simple but not easy. You have to pass on buying that box of cookies. Just walk by and don’t make any eye contact with those pig-tailed smiling faces. You will have to do this twice, into the store and also when you exit. Trials build perseverance.

What’s the benefit? Consuming less cookies, especially Girl Scout cookies, means you have more control of the release of insulin in your body. You have single handedly cut off funding for both streams of income for the terrorist group. Without funding, they have no means for action.

If you can control the insulin response, you drastically reduce, prevent, and reverse virtually every chronic illness from diabetes to cancer that threatens the economy and safety of this good ole nation. We start spending less on disease, thus keeping taxes lower.

Be strong, don’t get sucked into their propaganda that it’s genetic. This is one of the early techniques taught to the young girls. You have power, you have choice, you have a country to save. Get out there and deny, deny, deny those cookie onslaughts. Just remember you’re not in this alone. FREEEEEEDDDOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!

Winning!!! The Secret of Success.

2012-01-23T12:08:00.000-07:00

Over the past few weekends has been some pretty good football. Being from New York, I’m rooting for the Giants. Living in Colorado, I was hoping to see the Tebow run keep going. Fortunately, after this weekend, I can keep rooting for a team instead of just an experience they call the Super Bowl.

One thing I think the sports commentators and all the analysts overlook is the definition of success. In the sports world, winning is pretty much the only stat you want at the end of your career, so therefore it gets defined as the ultimate argument for success. Winning is a value that is shared across the sports world (and Charlie Sheen).

When it comes down to it, there is probably less than 0.5% of you reading this that are making a living at playing a sport. We went professional is some other realm of life. It doesn’t matter if you are working at a company, for yourself, or as a homemaker, you are a professional at something.

What’s difficult in the professional world of non-sports is that we measure our success like we would if we were playing a sport. Did we win? Did we win that argument? Did we win by getting to the checkout lane faster? Did we win by doing the least amount of work to get by? Did our kid get the highest test score? Every day is a secret competition.

Competition is not a bad thing. I hate losing more than I love winning. When competition becomes bad is when our values are violated. In pro sports, everyone values winning but they also value doing it fairly. If a defensive lineman gets held going after the running back, he’s upset. If a running back is tackled, there’s no problem. If you bring him down by his facemask, there’s words and possibly a fight.

How does this apply for your life? With well defined values, you have a compass for where you want to end up, (your destination or purpose). How do you know if your values are going to get you to your destination? You have to analyze your behaviors. Show me your behavior, I can tell you what you believe.

Your behaviors are a direct result of your beliefs. To have T.R.U.E. success, it’s not about whether you won. Success comes from the absolute certainty that your values are congruent with your beliefs and that your beliefs are going to get you to your destination.

When your values are inconsistent with your behaviors you will have destruction. It’s inevitable.

Don’t know what you value? Do this simple list. Write down the 10 characteristics you want your child to have as an adult. This should be super easy. These are your values.

The tough assignment is analyzing your beliefs. Take 3 days (2 work days, 1 weekend day) for 8 hour stretches. Every 15 minutes, have a timer go off and quickly jot down what you are saying or thinking. This is what you believe.

Now compare your value list to your belief list. Do they match? For example. If you value kindness but one of your thoughts is that you wish your boss was dead, no matter how much a jerk he/she is, that’s incongruent and will lead to stress (toxicity and deficiency). If you value health but you are enjoying an over sized piece of chocolate cake. That’s an incongruency. Once is not going to do much but how many people do you know that have only had 1 piece of cake in their life?

The easy solution to make sure you are living successfully is to match your values with your actions. This is the win that matters most in life. This is the win that stays current. You don’t have to reminisce about the glory days. Living congruently is living in the Glory Days. Guess what, your season is never ending. You get to play this game every day of your life.

Not sure if your actions are matching with your health value? Take this Free Mini Assessment and see for yourself. Need more direction? Sign up for the ’10 Things You can Do Right Now (Free) to Radically Change Your Health and Save Cash.’

Nobody can influence your values, you are born with these. What you need to protect is your beliefs and behaviors to make sure they match. Need your behaviors analyzed? Ask your spouse.

Diabetes Deen

2012-01-18T15:03:00.000-07:00

I've had a number of clients the past couple days email me with the same question. "Dr. Kurt, did you see Paula Deen on the Today Show? You gotta watch it."

For those that don't know who Paula Deen is, I didn't before all the hype behind her announcement, she's the 'Queen of Southern Cooking.' Her much anticipated announcement was to tell the world that she has diabetes. You can watch the clip below. Too bad news programs don't cover stories of people reversing disease. That day will come when drug companies are not at the top of the advertising dollars to keep a show on air.

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One of her messages is that 'diabetes is not a death sentence.' I agree with her...except by the path that she has chosen. Managing diabetes does nothing to control or reverse the illness. Were the 180,000 people that died from diabetes last year (15-18 years prematurely) just the ones that forgot to take their meds or go to their doctor's appointments? No, they were the ones managing it.

So I can save space and time with my ranting about this Paula Deen thing, Get my Free report of the 'Top Reasons Why Following Your Doctor's Recommendations Will Make Your Diabetes Worse.'

What fires me up most about this whole issue is not the cooking she does and sells. People have that choice to eat that way. What pisses me off is that now she is a spokes person for a DRUG COMPANY that is going to guide people to get 'healthy.' My first rule of endorsing something or recommending something is to first be a role model. Why take advice from someone that has diabetes, 100% contributed by her lifestyle, now paid by a drug company, with a message that she can help you with your diabetes by adding a lifestyle of testing and drugs disguised in the cloak she calls, HOPE.

Seriously? Your path to manage diabetes, which costs an individual $13,000 every year, shortening their lifespan 15-18 years, and leads you closer and closer to kidney failure, dialysis, disability, blindness, not to mention astronomically increasing your chance of stroke, cancer, and congestive heart failure, is HOPE?

Another thing that enrages me is that she is outright lying on the causes of type-2 diabetes? She says genetics and getting older? Where did you hear that, may I have a copy? It's 100% lifestyle related. If something is genetic, it will show at birth. It's not possible to be genetic when you consume massive amounts of sugar and don't walk further than from the couch to the kitchen for decades.

Family History is NOT genetic history either. What do families share? Lifestyle habits. Change the environment, change the outcomes. I'm a prime example. If you look at my family history, I'm amazed I've lived until age 33.

The doc in the clip is also lying. We do know what causes diabetes. It's years of accumulation. It takes years of dedicated work to urn (yes I know it's misspelled, think about it) diabetes. I know this isn't the most compassionate of statements but let's face it, all this nice nice talk about illness and people being victims isn't getting us any healthier.

All the money raised, all the walks done, all the research performed has only 1 thing to show for its efforts. More Disease.

And Ms. Deen's best words of advice? Moderation? Seriously? Moderation is a freakn' myth. Do you moderately beat your wife, smoke crack, or turn tricks? Moderation is the key for mediocrity. When it comes to your health, you can't afford to have mediocre health. There are too many people depending on you.

What I can tell you is that you CAN beat diabetes. You CAN blow smoke up your doctor's advice. And you CAN turn a new chapter and give diabetes the big fat hairy middle finger. But forget the typical route of testing and drugs. If diabetes is 100% a result of lifestyle, I'm going to test your lifestyle. You can learn more about the testing I do by clicking HERE.

You can also take a FREE mini-assessment by clicking HERE. Since health is absolutely dependent on the choices you make and your function, that's what I'm concerned with, not the effects of your lifestyle like what you get on a blood test.

Stay tuned this year as I have a vendetta against diabetes. There will be future emails, webinars, videos, and speaking engagements with a message not watered down that you don't have to a victim of the illness or your family history. You will be able to take control and do it in an easy, comfortable, and sustainable manner. And I can do it without taking a cent from a drug company.

There's No Food

2012-01-13T09:15:00.001-07:00

My wife and I were preparing for some very close friends to come into town this weekend. I was out (oot for those north of the border) and about (aboot) running some errands and picking up some food for the house.

I got back to the house and loaded up our kitchen counters with lots of apples, pears, grapefruit, bananas and pears. The fridge was also stocked with free range eggs and chicken, some ground turkey, tomatoes, a huge container of spring mix and spinach, and even breast milk (not for our friends, just the baby). I am ready to feast.

It turns out I didn't get any 'real' food. There was nothing to eat for when they come. I was shocked because I was under the impression that what I got was 'real' food.

It hit me like a ton of bricks how much influence the media has on us. I began paying attention to what commercials were playing. I can't count one commercial for a piece of fruit or vegetable, yet there are many claims of processed foods being 'all natural.'

The commercials you see are all for grain products like bread, cereal, and pasta, as well as dairy. These are what constitutes as 'real' food in America now. It's absurd. What's even harder to swallow is that you are duped that these foods are essential for nutrition. What's wring with grains? Read THIS. What's wring with dairy? Read THIS.

To keep this short, ask a couple questions. 1. What country consumes the most grains and dairy of any country in the world? 2. What country has the WORST health outcomes of every developed country in the world? Your answer for both are the big, literally fat, US of A.

The only resemblance of truth in a commercial I saw was from a grocery chain here in town called King Soopers where they use a point system for nutrient content of their food. 100 being perfect. 0 being paint chips. In the commercial it ranks broccoli at 100. Unfortunately, it also ranks dairy products in the 80s. Again, are scores based on science, lobby, or dogma?

The best part of the commercial is there is this happy little kid with a massive smile eating cereal with the line, 'Cheerios..37.' There's also fine print in the commercial that states the average rank for breakfast cereal is 27.

Even when a child is eating poisonous food like cereal, they depict him as happy. Am I the only one that sees this? Am I the only one that reads about the US having a childhood chronic illness rate of 25%. Are you aware that having diabetes will cost you a minimum extra $10,000 out of your pocket each year?

I'm starting to calm down a little bit but when the influence I work so hard to protect against enters my home, it gets me a little fired up. The great news is that I realized I still have a LOT of work to do in helping you make vital decisions regarding your health. Jump on board and stay with me on this.

For allowing me to rant a bit, here's a gift. It's the 'Top Reasons Following Your Doctor's Recommendations will Make Your Diabetes WORSE.' Take a wild guess at what 2 food groups you're being told to eat to help not just diabetes but heart disease, cancer, arthritis, ADHD, and every other chronic illness. If you can't guess, then just get the free report.

Contact Dr. Kurt

2012-01-12T16:15:00.001-07:00

Contact Dr. Kurt HERE.
405 Windchime Pl. Colorado Springs, CO

I grew up with a dad that was a pastor of a small congregation that probably had an average age of 60. My mom was a registered nurse, primarily for infants but was pretty savvy in the medical field as she transitioned into the policy side of things later in her career.

Each Sunday going to church, I had a number of sets of ‘grand parents.’ Because we were such a small population, everyone acted as family and my folks pretty much gave the green light to anyone i the church to discipline me as they felt needed. I learned quickly to act right and be respectful, or just don’t get caught doing what you’re not supposed to be doing. Being the youngest of 3, I’m sure my siblings feel that I was able to get away with more than they could.

One of the rituals of a small church congregation was the almighty potluck. This was a glorious time to eat, fellowship, and eat some more. You name a casserole and it was there. You name a pasta dish and there was plenty. Need rolls, buns, and breads? No problem. But the best dishes were the ones served in the pie tins. Apple, cherry, raspberry, chocolate creme, pumpkin, sweet potato, and lemon meringue. It was all there and it was all good.

What was also there with these elderly was that ever one of them seemed to have some special colored candy in Dixie cups. I wanted some. It looked pretty. It looked fun. But it wasn’t candy. As I got older, I realized these were their medications. My real grandmas had 3 of them. One atthe dinner table, one by their favorite chair, and one by their bed.

I was told that the medicine was to help them get better. What load of shitake. As I grew up I saw these loved ones take more and more of these colorful pills but no one seemed to get better. Maybe the pills weren’t good enough. Maybe they were getting the wrong pills? Maybe I could help?

When I graduated high school I went off to a small liberal arts college in Rochester, NY. I declared my major to be pharmacy. It was actually pre-pharmacy because I would have to transfer in 3 years to another school to finish the degree.

I got a semester into college and I was told that I better look for another career path. My grades weren’t good enough to transfer out in 2.5 year years. I was told, “I’ve seen kids like you before.” That’s all I heard. It became personal and a challenge.

I went back to my dorm room and opened up the college manual of degrees offered. I went through an alphabetical list and got to the B section and had to look no more. My eyes gazed on Biochemistry. It seemed like the hardest thing I could do. Not because I inherently love biochemistry but because it was a major that seemed difficult for “a kid like me” that when I graduate I could rub it in the face of that adviser.

I never got that satisfaction of rubbing it in that professor’s face. A year later she retired and I was assigned a new adviser. This new adviser was PhD biochemist that had grants from the NIH (National Institute of Health) for research in genetics. This would be my new ‘best’ friend for the next 2 years. I failed to mention that I was the only declared biochemistry major among any upper classmen, leaving me with more than enough one on one academic advising.

One of my roles was to help this adviser sequence some DNA of a specific gene of a specific bacteria. For fear of ridicule but to be transparent, we were dealing with Chlamydia. Not the best way to impress a girl when she asks what are you studying? Thankfully it is from a strain that only birds carry. Again, trying to convince a potential date you study Chlamydia that’s “from a bird” is a hard sell.

When preparing to sequence this DNA, I had to have extra cells on hand in case I mess up and have to start over. Not a big deal. You take the parent cells and put some on a petri dish and let it incubate in that dish filled with the exact right environment of nutrients, oxygen, temperature, and time. That seemed like such a simple concept at the time but it got me thinking.

If I were to change the environment what would happen to the health of the cells I was trying to grow? If I didn’t keep that petri dish in perfect conditions, what would happen?

I hope you are all saying, ‘the cells would die.’ And you probably don’t think much of this, it’s a no brainer. Let me ask you this? What’s the difference between the individual cells in the petri dish vs. all the 70 trillion cells combined to form a human? Besides that humans aren’t made of Chlamydia cells?

There is no difference. What is good for one cell is good for all 70 trillion cells. What is bad for one cell is bad for all 70 trillion cells.

You made the great and scientific observation that if the cells don’t get what they need, they die. What if they get what they don’t need? What if someone at night was adding diesel fuel to my cells in the petri dishes? Again, they would be sick and eventually die.

A cell needs 2 things to be healthy. 1. It needs everything it requires. 2. It requires nothing it doesn’t need. Simply put, a cell requires an environment (your choices that make up your petri dish) that is pure and sufficient.

Why this was such an ‘AHA’ moment to me was that the majority of my life and pretty much all of my schooling, I was taught that it was the DNA that dictated health or sickness. You’ve been told this too. When a doctor can’t figure out what’s going on, they automatically say, ‘it must be genetic.’ This is could not be further from the truth. Illness is 98% choices made.

Take some time to peruse around the site. Hopefully you will have an few 'AHA' moments that leave you feeling pissed because you've been duped. It's when you get pissed that change happens. Enjoy.

It Just Makes Sense

2012-01-11T17:28:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure if many of you know or not but I split my time between writing, speaking, and coaching with Chiropractic. One thing that seems weird to many other chiropractors was that I had never been to a chiropractor before heading to chiropractic school.

I went because chiropractic made sense to me. Nearing the end of my undergraduate training I had a big decision to make to figure out what I was going to do with the rest of my life. I would be graduating with a degree in biochemistry and worked a lot with genetics.

The paths were many. I could have gone onto masters and PhD in biochemistry, which most likely would have put me in a lab making drugs for some drug company. I looked at teaching high school science but after doing some substitute teaching in a few different schools, realized the majority of the teachers were burnt out and hated life.

I looked into med school, physical therapy school, and even the Peace Corps. I had no clue. Finally a friend, who was heading to optometry school said I should check out chiropractic. I knew nothing before that moment, much like the patients that come through my doors that first time. I didn't even have any pre-conceived notions like I hear and ask about from all first timers.

What I did know was that in order for a cell to be healthy, it needed 2 things. It needed an environment that was pure and sufficient. Through my undergrad I worked a lot with petri dishes and in order for the cells to grow nice and healthy, I had to give them exactly what they needed and keep out what was harmful.

In my research before applying to chiropractic schools, I knew that role of the chiropractor was to help each individual create a pure and sufficient environment. Those mis-alignments in the spine called Subluxations are not the cause of illness but are the effects of things like trauma and more often, the effects of a poor lifestyle (choices).

The only reason I really care about the spine is that it protects the spinal cord. All the bones in the spine have joints. When these joints are not moving properly (subluxation complex), it affects the nervous system, the very system that coordinates EVERY function in your body.

Chiropractic isn't a treatment for pain, allergies, muscle spasms, etc. The purpose of the chiropractic adjustment is to detect and correct the subluxation affecting the nervous system that occurred due to decisions that were toxic and deficient (things not good for you). The role of the chiropractor is to educate you in preventing the causes of the subluxation (lifestyle).

I urge you to get your spine checked regularly and make chiropractic a part of your regular drug free approach to creating health. Don't use chiropractic as your natural band-aid but use is as a way to optimize your nervous system's communication.

Not all chiropractors are created (developed) equally. Go interview them prior to getting care and then start on a proactive plan with that doc. This means being proactive in your health and not waiting until you are a dire situation and expecting a miracle adjustment to cure your 10 year problem.

Personally I offer affordable plans for individuals and families so that can get the care they desire without breaking the bank. I can see a whole family for weekly chiropractic check-ups for as little as $155/month.

What's even better is that these are the people that spend the least on health care. They have gone to high deductible HSA insurance plans because they aren't running to the MD, getting sick, or needing medications. They are building health and reaping the benefits from doing so. You should too. Need help finding a doc in your area, give me a shout HERE and I'll do my best to find a T.R.U.E. Chiropractor for you and your family.

Ignorance is NOT Bliss

2012-01-10T15:19:00.000-07:00

Have you ever told yourself that 'ignorance is bliss?' It seems like the easy thing to do in life to not be affected by stress and such. The problem, especially in the health world, is that ignorance is reaping major profits for drug companies and our typical American medical system without the results of increased health and decreased cost.

Ignorance is funneling millions of people into lowering their cholesterol each year with dangerous statin drugs. Ignorance is leading people to believe that adding more health care (the most expensive in the world, yet least effective) will solve our national health problem. Ignorance is responsible for people accepting that they are sick because of bad bugs, bad genes, and bad luck. Ignorance is allowing this to continue because 'someone else is going to take care of the problem.'

I understand I'm preaching to the choir with this newsletter. You are the one learning to take control of your health. You are the one that is implementing action steps to build health, not just manage symptoms. You are the one that reads this blog each time I write it, with my hope that the message will spread to a loved one.

As I look ahead at 2012, I feel a burden for the diabetics. I feel this group of sufferers are the ones being duped the most by ignorance. These are the folks that get recommendations to manage their condition that violate all laws of building health. So I created a report for you. You have to promise that you won't keep it a secret. Please pass this link onto your loved ones. If there is anyone in your family that has diabetes or has been labeled as 'pre-diabetic', they must read this before taking any more advice from their doctor.

The report is the 'Top Reasons Your Doctor's Recommendations Will Make Your Diabetes Worse.' I'm serious. Having treated thousands of patients and seeing them get worse by following the 'conventional medical wisdom' of how to manage diabetes, it baffles me that a doctor can even give this advice in clear conscious. Please, read it for yourself but I beg you to pass it on. Think of that co-worker that has to take breaks to inject insulin. Shoot an email to your in-laws that have to do a finger prick as their daily routine. If you have diabetes and your kids are worried about their health, this is a must read.

You can get the full report FREE HERE. Thank you for being on this journey of T.R.U.E. health and allowing me to be a part of it. You have Help. You have Hope. You have Control. Pay it Forward.

Dr. Kurt's 6 Easy Steps to Making Resolutions Last

2012-01-02T10:43:00.000-07:00

1. ADD first, NEVER Remove: Health is NOT about deprivation. Make it Easy and Comfortable. You're in it for the long haul, not only a few weeks.

2. FRESH FIBER FIRST: ALWAYS eat some raw vegetables or fruits withe EVERY meal or snack. This provides amazing fiber, digestive enzymes, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytochemicals.

3. Incorporate Activity into Work, Family, and Social Lives: If going out for Coffee with friends, park 5 minutes away and walk together as you talk. Wrestle your kids or grand kids often. Walk during lunch breaks.

4. ALWAYS Shop Full: Your nutritional decisions determining your health are made at purchase. If you don't buy the junk, you don't eat the junk.

5. Judge Choices on How Your Feel AFTERWARDS: You will NEVER regret eating a salad or going for a walk or saying 'thank you,' but may often regret that cake, that extra time in front of the TV, or snapping at a co-worker. Evaluate your choices on what your cells need, not on your cravings or emotions.

6. ALWAYS Start and End Your Day with Gratitude. As a man thinketh, so he is. You're more that what you eat. You're what you think.

To get Dr. Kurt's '10 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW (FREE) to Radically Change Your Health and Save Cash,' Click HERE.

Save on Life Insurance

2011-12-22T09:00:00.000-07:00

Ever hear commercials for life insurance? Do you think it's expensive? There's an easy solution to making it cheaper and getting a better coverage. It's called getting healthy.

If you want the best snapshot of how healthy or unhealthy you are, go and get some quotes for life insurance.

The first thing asked will be your health history. This will include any diagnosis of heart disease, cancers, diabetes, arthritis, auto-immune disorders, allergies, asthma, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and the list can go on. If you have a diagnosis, you rate will go up. Living by the T.R.U.E. principles of health will eliminate this and therefore lower your rates.

You will be asked about medications taken. Remember that sick people take medications. Healthy people do not. An insurance company knows to the decimal point of how much you will use the system over and over again by how much medication you take. They know that once a user, always a user and have to adjust your premium accordingly, so they don't lose money. They pass the increase in costs onto you. People living T.R.U.E. health don't worry about this.

They will inquire about your health history, if you had any past diagnosis. Again, if you've been unhealthy once, they have a pretty good idea, that it will happen again...unless you have adopted a T.R.U.E. lifestyle, in which you can kiss past illness to the curb, thus lowering your rates.

You will be inquired about your age. This is just a number and we're not meant to live forever so honestly there's really nothing to be done here, just lock in rated when you are younger.

Your gender will be a factor. Women get lower rates because they tend to live longer. I would like to think that women are a lot smarter about taking care of their health than men are, hence the reason they live longer and thus save on their life insurance premium.

Your lifestyle factors will also be quizzed but on a very limited basis. You will be asked about your alcohol and tobacco consumption. I'm surprised life insurance companies don't make you submit a grocery bill, a cable tv bill, and gym receipts. This may allow them to better judge a person's lifestyle than a yes or no with tobacco or alcohol. Not giving them any ideas but tobacco and alcohol are grains of sand in the beach of lifestyle factors. But since lifestyle accounts for a solid 98% of illness, this would be accounted for when asking about diagnosis, medications, and health history. Health is about choices not chances.

In order to get a lower, better rate on life insurance, you have to be healthier. Your age does not dictate your health. Your insurance company does not dictate your health. Your government does not dictate your health. You do. That's empowering. You have control and take control with easy, comfortable, and sustainable steps. It's not hard at all and you can do it at your pace.

The cool thing with life insurance is that you have to wait 1-2 years before you can re-test to get a better rate. This gives you lots of time to make those easy changes so you can sustain them the rest of your life. You invest in yourself for a bit to have massive savings in the long run. It's a win-win situation for all partied involved.

Don't know where to start? Start with my FREE mini-assessment to see get a snap shot of how your choices are affecting your health which will affect your life insurance rates. Once taken, we can review what you're doing well and where you need to improve to make a big difference on your life insurance rates. Get healthy, save money, live happy.

Diagnosis Sick and Tired

2011-12-21T15:37:00.000-07:00

Here’s a tip for 2012. Stop searching for a diagnosis and just get healthy.

Does it really matter what label your condition has? The only solution is to get healthy. Think of the healthiest person you know. Do they have a medical diagnosis? No, they have health.

There’s only 2 reasons to have a diagnosis. The first is for you to obtain a prescription (order for drugs and surgery), you need a diagnosis. It’s malpractice for a doctor to prescribe you medicine or do a surgery without a diagnosis.

The other reason to have a diagnosis is so a drug company can sell you its prescriptions that were just written by your doctor. Without a diagnosis you can’t get a prescription. Without the prescription, you can’t get the drugs, legally.

Be honest, in either scenario, does anyone get healthier? Look at your family and friends to assess. It shouldn’t shock you that the sickest people you know are the ones that are on the most medications. It’s not a coincidence.

Again, picture the healthiest person you know. Are they taking medications? Absolutely not. Medications are for sick people. If you start loading up healthy people with medications, they get sick.

So by searching for a diagnosis, your only possible outcomes are to get prescribed drugs and surgery which will make you sicker, which will lead you to more drugs and surgery, which lead to more sickness. It’s a nightmare cycle.

Instead of looking for a label of your sickness, start getting healthy. It doesn’t matter if you go to a naturopath or chiropractor (yes, I am a chiropractor) who don’t use medications. If you’re looking for a label, you’re stuck with a label and you’ll be stuck treating that label the rest of your life, even if it is ‘natural.’

The only viable and sustainable solution to ‘treat’ your sickness is to get healthy. Sounds simple right? It is simple but it’s not always easy. Most people associate getting healthy with either giving up something they love or adding something they hate. Of course that’s not easy.

In my T.R.U.E. approach to health, I can show you and guide you in a systematic way of regaining your energy, endurance, libido, heart function, immune function, and brain function, in an easy, comfortable, and sustainable manner. You don’t have to give up anything you love or add anything you hate but you will have to make changes. Easy peasy.

Take my FREE, 2 minute, mini-assessment to understand the T.R.U.E. cause of what ails ya. It’s quick and easy and then I will follow up with you. Your mini-assessment will give you a pass/fail grade. This doesn’t mean you are doing everything wrong if you get a fail. More than likely you are doing a lot of things right but are still struggling with your health. Let’s have some dialogue.

Instead of looking for a diagnosis, let’s work together to understand the requirements your body needs to have the health you desire and create it. Unfortunately, you’ve been lied to and lead to believe that you can find this answer and solution in pill form. If the side-effects on the commercials don’t scare you straight, I don’t know what will.

Duped by Drug Ads

2011-12-17T14:17:00.000-07:00

Cholesterol is the most mis-informed subject matters I've come across. We've literally been brain washed into the fact that cholesterol is bad. This could not be a bigger lie.

Cholesterol is an essential building block to every one of your 70,000,000,000,000 cells. It's what keeps a cell wall strong. It's what gives us a 3-d shape.

HDL and LDL are NOT cholesterol. These are what carry cholesterol in the body. LDL is smaller and therefore can move through your blood stream fast. HDL is larger, can carry more cholesterol, but it slower.

LDL will be higher naturally, it's plentiful in stressful situations (physical, chemical, emotional), to heal and patch up any damage or potential damage. HDL production is shut down during these times. When the stressful event is over, then HDL production picks up and is sent out to wrangle up the left over cholesterol, which is then taken to the liver to be recycled.

If cholesterol were bad, it would be pooped out but that's doesn't happen, except for some of the drugs that attach to bile (plentiful in cholesterol) to be excreted.

The other misconception is that high cholesterol (in which every 10 years the normal range is dropped with proportionate elevation in heart disease), causes heart disease. Over the past 30 years, the 'experts' have lowered the numbers but heart disease has gotten worse. The US has the lowest average cholesterol of the citizens yet still the #1 killer. It's not the cause.

Before answering 'how to lower cholesterol,' I think it's suicide to even try. The whole theory of cholesterol started when researchers would feed rabbits food high in cholesterol. Rabbits don't eat food high in cholesterol so of course this will be injurious to the rabbit, therefore the rabbit's body needing to attack the foreign invader food (inflammation). Fast forward to 2011 and we have a whole population and many nations that are living incongruently to our DNA requirements. Of course there is going to be problems.

With Apple Cider Vinegar and Red Yeast Rice, these may lower cholesterol and they may not. I'm not surprised when they don't because neither is a required nutrient by the body. The only thing drugs can prove is that by taking them, they lower cholesterol. They have yet to prove that taking them decreases death one bit. In fact, Lipitor's '19 years of clinic research' only shows that 100 people, over a 3 1/2 year period on Lipitor PLUS a CHANGE IN DIET, will produce 1 less heart attack than those that didn't do or change anything.

In other words, they have success with 1 person out of 100 in a 3.5 year span and that one person also switched to a low fat diet (which isn't great but probably better than what they were doing in the first place). Translate that to billions of people taking these drugs world wide and they say they have saves many people from heart attacks, which have never been proven fatal.

I'm always going to go back to asking a different set of questions.

1. Is there any proof that lowering cholesterol decreases death rates?

2. What is the role of cholesterol in normal physiology. If it's bad, then why does the body produce it?

3. What does the body require genetically to function optimally?

If you can answer these 3 questions correctly, not based on pharmaceutical funded research, you would ever take a toxic chemical to decrease a life saving/life forming element of the human body.

If you're ultra concerned about lowering her cholesterol to look good on a test, do a juice fast and then get tested after that. The only solution is to live congruently. This is where I'm an expert and can lead you in a direction of doing this that is easy, comfortable, and lasting. Give me a year and I'll change your WHOLE life. Start by taking a FREE Mini Assessment. Get on track, I've got your back.

Pre-Disposed??

2011-12-12T18:35:00.000-07:00

Have you ever spoken the words, maybe even in a joking manner, that you are pre-disposed to a certain condition? Maybe you have thought you are pre-disposed to heart disease. Maybe you have been told by your doctor you are pre-disposed to diabetes. Does this sound familiar, even if it’s not you? Maybe someone you love?

To be predisposed is to be made susceptible or liable. Susceptibility is to be easily influenced or affected. When you hear these words, do you automatically think of something negative? Do you think you have no control of the outcome? Do you feel helpless or hopeless?

STOP IT!! Seriously, just stop it. The only thing you are predisposed to is health. Does that sound weird? It shouldn’t. It should sound empowering and enlightening and not controversial at all.

Think about it. From conception, your DNA programmed you (predisposed you) to 9 months of cell division so when you were fully cooked, you came into the world with the innate genetic intelligent function to do things like exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide, absorb nutrients and shiver to stay warm.

You have all capabilities for proper and normal health. These terms ‘proper’ and ‘normal’ are highly debated depending on who funded the study you read but I would challenge you to find one, that as a species, we are predisposed to chronic illness.

Being lead to believe that you are predisposed to chronic illness is unethical. It’s just not T.R.U.E. From the moment of conception to the moment you die, your body does nothing but adapt to keep you alive, healthy, and well. This doesn’t mean we live forever but we do fight until that last breath and heart beat.

The only predisposition is your environment. How you eat, how you move, and how you think. This is where you have control. You have empowerment. You have abundant health. Your job in life is to harness this power and create decisions that match your DNA requirements. But there’s a good chance you were never taught how to do this growing up. Frankly, in all my years of education, until the past few years, I was never taught to do this.

What’s amazing is that when you learn to match your decisions with your DNA requirements, you will realize you are predisposed to have the life you seek. Heart disease will not be your worry. Diabetes will be an after-thought. You will even laugh in cancer’s face.

Join me this Wednesday the 14^th at 6:27 to Junk Punch Your Genetic Diagnosis. Think about that person that irritates the crap out of you. Maybe it was a bully. Maybe it was an older brother. Maybe it’s your boss. I don’t condone violence but imagine yourself greeting that person with a huge smile, then quickly dropping to crotch level to upper-cut this person with as much strength as you can muster….right between the pants pockets. While that person is writhing in pain on the floor, you look him in the eye and say, ‘You Know Why…You Know Why!’

Join me on Wednesday as we do the same to the ‘man’ we call ‘family history,’ ‘genetic diagnoses,’ and ‘predisposition.’ Sounds fun, right? I’ve done it once and am ready to do it again. RSVP HERE and feel free to bring guests. It’s going to be fun and enlightening. You can wear a cup if you feel necessary.

To Chop or Not To Chop? That is the Question.

2011-12-05T10:04:00.001-07:00

I’m home this week as my folks are in town to see the new baby. There was just a story on the Today Show about E News Reporter Giuliana Rancic and her journey to get a double mastectomy for breast cancer. This is her decision and one each individual has to make but I feel she didn't get all the information necessary.

What I will comment on is the HUGE point that was missed to improve your health and the HUGE point that they were trying to make that will put your health in danger.

1. The point that was massively glossed over is that Giuliana and her husband, former winner of the Apprentice, were undergoing treatments for Infertility. How does this have anything to do with breast cancer? It’s all about the hormones. Women getting infertility treatments are doused with hormones to make sure the embryo takes. The major potential problem is that hormones make cells divide to increase growth.

Again, a decision that each person has to weigh but when artificial hormones (and even natural ones) are introduced into the human body, there’s rarely no consequence. The obvious consequences of hormones for most women are not getting pregnant, calming menopause symptoms, or in this case, trying to get pregnant.

But the consequences that are not discussed are the undesired ones. Like I said previously, hormones make cells divide, think steroids. With the ones found in birth control, hormone replacement, and infertility they are targeting reproductive tissue, hence a massive increase in breast cancer…it’s a hormone sensitive tissue. Hormones make cells divide more often and quicker.

2. Breast cancer is an effect. It’s not the breast’s fault for ‘getting’ breast cancer. Your body is too interconnected for this mechanistic logic. Just because the breasts aren’t there, doesn’t mean they will prevent cancer. It would be like removing your heart to prevent heart disease. Your body is genetically designed to grow, heal, and repair but it takes giving your genes exactly what is required.

Junk Punch Your Genetic/Family History Diagnosis, Wednesday, December 14^th at 6:30.

3. The Today Show’s Big point was how great mammograms seem. Of course they can’t back this with any statistics or they would never recommend mammograms. Learn why if I were a woman, I would never get a mammogram. Again, that would be my decision but I urge you to make your decision based on information, not dogma.

4. Lastly, YOU ARE GENETICALLY PROGRAMMED FOR HEALTH. There is not ONE single study that can confirm you are programmed for sickness, illness, and early death. With that said, it’s common to get breast cancer but NOT normal. You can absolutely prevent breast cancer. You can absolutely reverse breast cancer. You just have to learn how to program your DNA to express health. Join me on Wednesday, December 14^th to learn to program your DNA to express health that junk punches breast cancer. RSVP HERE. Your health depends on it.

The Joker's Wild Workout

2011-12-02T16:30:00.001-07:00

Don't know what to do for a workout or are you traveling over this Holiday season without access to a gym? Just grab a deck of cards and shuffle away. You only need to know how to do 4 exercises. At the end of the workout, you will perform 94 repetitions of each exercise.

Start by assigning each suit to an exercise. For example: Pushups can be HEARTS. Standing Squats can be DIAMONDS. Sit-Ups can be SPADES. Jumps can be CLUBS.

Here's a list of other moves you can do to get started without having to use weights:
- Pullups
- One-Legged Lunges (do both legs)
- Jump Knee Tucks
- Under the Fence Pushups
- Ball Crunches
- Shoulder Presses
- Sprints
- Jumping Jacks
- Torso Twists
- Planks (Hold for seconds.)

All these can be modified and for greater effort either add weight or double/triple the amount of reps on the card you pull.

Need a rest? Shuffle in the Joker's and use these as either a 30 or 60 second rest period.

Junk Punch Your Genetic Diagnosis

2011-12-02T09:32:00.001-07:00

It's time to take action. I've heard too many people this week say they have their diagnosis because someone in their family has it or because their doctor told them it was genetic.

I'm calling an EMERGENCY workshop to debunk and 'junk punch' your doctor's lame and faulty logic regarding diagnosing genetic problems.

Your problem is NOT genetic if no symptoms show of this illness until later in life.

Your diagnosis is NOT genetic just because someone in your family has it.

Your ailment is NOT genetic because 'they' can't figure out what's going on so therefore label it is in your DNA.

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 14th @ 6:30 pm.

405 Windchime Pl.

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

RSVP HERE

The buck stops here. Give your diagnosis a big, fat, hairy middle finger. Learn the absolute T.R.U.Eth about family history, genetics, and chronic illness so you can junk punch your doctor's faulty logic on genetics and the cause of your diagnosis. Empower yourself so you can give the 'genetic' diagnosis the big, fat middle finger. You CAN reverse Cancer. You CAN reverse Diabetes. You CAN reverse Heart Disease. You CAN live a life without fear and confusion. You CAN take control of your health with certainty. I can help. But you must Choose. Start by choosing T.R.U.Eth.

Testimonials

2011-11-30T10:41:00.001-07:00

I was told by my GP that just because I did not remember a "family"history of the disorder I was going through, that didn't mean it didn't happen. It only means that "good record keeping" is a relatively new concept and that technological advances have meant we are able to"diagnose" things better now. Right!?!

However, when I was told my Fibromyalgia symptoms were brought on by stress and told I would have to live with them for the rest of my life, I first got angry, then a little frustrated with the lack of information out there on how to deal with this. It didn't make sense.

If I took the stress away, why could I not take the pain away? All I could find was how each drug worked on the symptoms. There is no documentation on a cure. Each visit I went back to the GP, she tried to sign me up on anti-depressants, to which I said, " I am NOT depressed! I hurt, and I need some sleep! Why are you trying to give me medication for something I don't have?!?"

I had to research my condition and look for ways around it. Of course I am not a physician and ended up treating my symptoms and not the cause. I had overloaded my body with all the wrong stuff over the years and now my body was pushing back. Very recently, I finally realized, nothing I was doing was working and because I did not want to continue on that way, checking my notebook to see when I could take my next pain med (yes I documented the whole thing), I realized I had to make a change...enter Dr. Kurt Perkins via a good friend.

I immediately put into practice what he said- adjust my diet to be primarily raw foods, no aspartame or preservatives, corrective posture therapy (wellness chiropractic adjustment) and positive thinking - and have very little pain almost immediately. I also stopped taking the pain medication - cold turkey. I can walk again, I am sleeping better and most importantly, have not taken any prescription and OTC pain meds for about 100 days. Thanks Dr. Kurt for being who you are and not being afraid to stand for what you believe in. You have shown me the way how to get my life back and keep the pain maintainable one day at a time with no pain medication!" -Garfield D.-

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"We are able to do more of what we want- sit at the movies, go for longer hikes, and feel better living our daily lives. We have only been sick once since starting our adjustments, as opposed to about once every other month.

We are making better choices in our diet, and have more energy because of that. We see our children lead healthy,drug-free lives, and that is worth the world! Don't hesitate! Get started right away. I was amazed at how all my symptoms- even the ones I didn't think could possible be related to a subluxation- were corrected!

You only have one life and one chance- why not make it the best possible? I have avoided needing a spine fusion from my herniation at L5/S1because of my adjustments. My sons have never received a vaccination because of the information and facts provided by Dr. Kurt Perkins.

I have avoided taking dangerous migraine medication, because the adjustments have completely eliminated migraines from my life. Dr. Kurt really takes the time to listen to you and make each adjustment what you need, not just what the doctor thinks you need. I appreciate Dr. Kurt answering our questions when we have them." -Adrianne R.-

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"Dr. Kurt Perkins is the most dedicated and and gifted chiropractors that I have been blessed to know. I'm not usually a very open person about my general well-being usually because I've always found that most doctors /chiropractors included 1) don't really care or 2) are just too busy.

I was convinced on the benefits of chiropractic years ago but it was only Dr. Kurt who went beyond the selling point of chiropractic with me and cared about my whole well being. He has never been pushy, arrogant or critical which helped me think "maybe he really cares about what's going on with me than the dollar in his pocket or the basket ball game he's missing ..."

And my kids...never once have I had a doctor / chiropractor come to the house to adjust my son when he was beginning to wheez to help give his body his God given ability to fight and to heal. Doctors and most chiropractors just don't do that anymore! Unfortunately it's not going to get any better now. You want a good doctor? Trust Dr. Kurt." -Jennifer G.-

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"I had numerous migraines, back aches, numb fingers while sleeping, and frequent acid indigestion. I was on 5 medicines for migraines, plus heartburn and cholesterol meds. After only a few weeks, I am on NO medications, I have no heart burn, and my migraines have decreased by about 75-80% in frequency and intensity." -Barry R-

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"Before seeing Dr. Kurt Perkins, I was suffering from chest pains of all kinds, heart palpitations, migraine headaches, and stomach pains on a regular basis. Doctors gave me a number of drugs that would have been detrimental to my health if I took them all. After about 6 months, I have not had a migraines, chest pain, or stomach pain for months. I'm feeling wonderful and I've even noticed that I rarely suffer from my normal allergies." -Amanda D.-

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My condition before coming to the chiropractor was very sad. I had a torn ACL in my right knee from over two years ago. I was put on the drug Mobic to help with the pain. None of the doctors told me I shouldn't be taking Mobic for 2 years; in doing so I caused my kidneys to malfunction at a stage 2 kidney failure.

I had been on 2 blood pressure medications as well as Zocor for high cholesterol for over 4 years. I went through a spell of depression, and you guessed it, more medication. A very good friend of mine wanted me to see her chirorpactor. My first though...what is a chirorpactor going to do for me...it's not my back that hurts, it was my knee and my mind.

I continued to find reasons for why I couldn't go. Finally, I decided that if my friend cares that much, I should go. It was the best decision I ever made for me and my family. Within a few months, I started to notice I had more energy and didn't want to be in bed all the time.

I also started reading all the information they have in the office, and Dr. Kurt Perkins's newsletters. It wasn't long before I realized I wanted to feel even better and I know that meant I needed to come off my medications. The first to go was the anti-depressant. It was great to make that decision for myself, and to have the people in the office support me and my choice.

Shortly after that, the kidney problem was discovered, most likely due to Mobic. So the Mobic was next to go. Since stopping Mobic and continuing with my adjustments, I have now been upgraded to only stage 1 kidney failure.

I am off all medications except for 1 blood pressure med, which I will be off within a year. In April 2009, I fell down our basement stairs and blew out my MCL in the same injured knee. I felt so depressed and was in so much pain AGAIN!! This fall also lead to low back pain...something I haven't had in years. I didn't give up...I kept all my appointments and even was asked to come in extra to help the healing process.

2 months after the fall, for the first time ever, I was able to say I had no symptoms. I feel and function better now than I have in over 2 years. Thank you to the office but also thank you to my friend who begged me to get checked." - Karen W.-

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"Well, I would hate to think what my life would be without coming to see Dr. Kurt. That thought is very scary. I would be a very sick and unhealthy person. I have the best Doctor, I feel he is fair and tries to find the answers always. He has knowledge. He is kind and patient (Especially with me)" -Kathy W.-

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Dr. Kurt genuinely cares about his patients! As a colleague of Dr. Perkins for six years, I can honestly say that Dr. Perkins' passion and caring for his patients is as true as his word. You will not find a more caring, hard working and authentic doctor than Dr. Perkins as you will be hard pressed to find a more caring, hard working and authentic person than Kurt. He lives what he teaches his patients and has a deep sense of commitment to the health of his community, and the health of everyone he meets. Dr. Perkins provides excellent care and the Colorado Springs community is fortunately blessed to have him. -Dr. Matthew Bortolussi

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T.R.U.E. Health Testing

2011-11-28T11:00:00.001-07:00

Testing is a key component to understanding what’s happening in the body. But have you ever questioned the value of them, especially with chronic illness? Let’s say you get a blood test and your cholesterol is high, is cholesterol the problem or the effect of something else? Were you born with high cholesterol? If so, then it’s a genetic thing and no matter what drug you take, what lifestyle you choose, it’s always going to be high. This occurs maybe 2% of the time.

With testing, whether it’s blood sugar, lipids, nutrients, allergies, hormones or even basic things like weight, they are ALL dependent on the choices you make. This isn’t to make you feel bad or guilty. This is to empower you to take responsibility. People with great health aren’t part of the lucky club and people with chronic illness aren’t part of the unlucky club. It takes dedicated work to achieve either result.

Why not get testing based on the CAUSE of illness, not tests that just show the effects? This is the only viable, accurate test for the CAUSE of the effects of your non-desired health outcomes. Before you get pricked with another needle, hooked up to electrodes, or get dosed with radiation, let me tell you about the T.R.U.E. testing that I recommend for anyone looking to wipe out their risk of heart disease, reverse diabetes, prevent cancer, and even shed some pounds. It’s a 3 index score.

Wellness and Prevention Index. This is a reflection of the percentage of congruency (a state of agreement) between your current lifestyle choices and those that are required by your DNA.

There are 3 Foundational Requirements determining your level of health. The first is that in order to BE healthy, you need to have HEALTHY CELLS. Just like the health of the forest is determined by the collective health of the individual trees, your health is determined by the collective health of your individual cells.

In order to have healthy cells you need to provide them with SUFFICIENT raw materials in the form of nutrients, movement stimulation, and proper neuro-hormonal input from thoughts and attitude. You need SUFFICIENCY.

Healthy cells also require PURITY. In order to have healthy cells you need to avoid things which are toxic or poisonous to your cells.

The Wellness and Prevention Index is based on comparing your current nutritional, movement, and thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes with that is genetically required. Humans have the blueprint for health, you choose the building materials.

Lifestyle Allostatic Load Index. This is the measure of the amount of stress load (physical, chemical, emotional) your lifestyle choices are placing on your cell function. Because stress is a root causal factor in all chronic illness and accelerated aging, your allostatic load index is an indirect measurement of your chronic health crisis.

Your allostatic load index is a reflection of the toll that any deficiency and toxicity (stress), are taking on your health and wellness potential. Your illness susceptibility rating is a warning sign for you and a wake-up call. Since how you Eat, Move, and Think is a choice and choosing to do these in toxic and deficient manners decreases both quantity and quality of life, the allostatic load index is really a reflection of how much you are choosing suicidal lifestyle behaviors. That sounds harsh but your health is too important to beat around the bush.

Functional Health and Vitality Index. This is a measurement of how your current lifestyle choices are impacting your health, happiness, and vitality – your functional quality of life. The functional health component represents actual measurements of your body composition and your abilities. The vitality index component represents a self-reported assessment of your perceived abilities, attitudes, and quality of life.

This is an essential way of identifying health issues BEFORE they manifest as chronic illness and disease. Prevention means addressing an illness BEFORE it is an illness. You cannot prevent something you already have.

Testing is great but are you testing for the CAUSE of illness or are you testing for the EFFECTS of illness. The congruency between your choices and DNA are the only sustainable way to create and maintain health. Get your T.R.U.E. Health Testing TODAY.

There’s no such thing as Have-To

2011-11-23T11:39:00.001-07:00

Have you ever realized you don’t have to do anything? This may seem weird because you are under pressure from every role in your life to ‘have to’ do things to keep going. When you sit and look at every ‘have to’ you possess, it’s more of a ‘choose to’ isn’t it? Everything is a choice.

‘Dr. Kurt, I have to feed the kids.’ No you don’t. You choose to feed your kids so they don’t go hungry.

‘Dr. Kurt, I have to get up early to get to work.’ No you don’t. You have the choice to sleep in and go to work late. In the same breath, your employer also has a choice to discipline you for being late but they don’t have to.

‘Dr. Kurt, my doctor told me I have to vaccinate my kids or they can’t go to school.’ Also not true. You have a choice to vaccinate or not and you have a choice to send your kids to school or not.

What you’re mixing up as ‘have-to’ is the consequence of your decisions. Every choice has a consequence, which can be a good one or one not favorable at all. In your thought process (conscious or not), you weighed the pros and cons of your decision. What you confused is that you feel obligated and forced to do something because you don’t like the potential consequences of not doing it.

Again, this is totally a choice. In the past, I’ve often given the advice to start a gratitude journal so people can actually track and key into their thought patterns. I want to take this a step further and deeper and challenge you to the Dr. Kurt rubber band ‘have-to’ exercise.

Choose a rubber band that is kind of pretty, kind of sporty, a fat one, or a skinny one. It doesn’t matter, you get to choose. Place it on your wrist that you don’t wear a watch. Every time you say or think ‘I have to,’ I want you to snap it. And choose to snap it hard enough that it stings.

After the sting wears off, rephrase your ‘I have to’ statement into an ‘I choose to’ one. You will be surprised at how many times each day you think or say ‘I have to.’ The more ‘I have to’ statements, the more you will feel powerless, helpless, and like a victim of your circumstances. The more ‘I choose to’ statements, the more you will feel in control, empowered, and responsible for your circumstances.

I don’t care what you’ve been told, you don’t have to do anything but you do have to choose to do everything. Choose consciously as there are consequences.

Health is the New Black.

2011-11-21T11:34:00.001-07:00

Since the birth of my son, I’ve been hanging out at home during the day to help out. It turns out, there’s not really much that I can do except hold him and change him. I can’t feed him and most of the time he sleeps so I just hold him, making sure he’s supported, comfortable, and happy.

This has occurred during normal business hours and this has occurred in the wee hours of the morning. During these times, I’ve watched a lot of TV. Without having cable, my options of programming during the week are really limited. My choices have been court shows, soap operas, Jerry Springer. Thankfully I’ve been able to enjoy watching game shows like The Price is Right, Cash Cab, and Let’s Make a Deal.

I’ve also witnessed many commercials for the Black Friday sales coming up, many infomercials, and a plethora of drug ads that strategically never say they will cure your condition or make you better, but only say they will help your symptoms. Ever notice that?

With all this media bombardment, I think I understand what people want. People buy stuff that they perceive will make them lose weight, make more money (or get out of debt), or have better sex. The other insight is that I can help you will all of these…indirectly. I can help you lose weight. I can help you have better sex. I can help you make more money. Indirectly.

“Dr. Kurt, you must be some sort of magic man.” It’s not magic but it is pretty cool. To start, I want you to close your eyes. I want you to picture the healthiest person you know. Think of that person that has lots of energy, a great attitude, very active, great relationships, super fit, and just lights up a room. Do you have that person in mind?

Ask yourself, does that person struggle with weight issues? Does that person need artificial chemicals to be happy? Does that person think twice about going for a hike, playing some basketball, or going skiing without worrying about being sore and stiff the next day? Is this person in constant fear and worry? Have you ever heard this person complain about their spouse or kids?

The only solution to losing weight, having better sex, and making more money (or getting out of debt for those Ramsey fans) is to create health and get less sick. When I say sick, I mean chronic sickness, the single greatest expense to our economically strapped country.

The only way to make health (it’s a choice, not chance) is to do what is required and not do what is harmful. This sounds like a simple solution, which it is, but it’s not always easy. With all those infomercials and programs out there, they force you to give up stuff you like and add things you hate. This can only work so long and the reason why there are so many ‘new and better’ gimmicks and drugs out there.

As we enter Black Friday and you’re looking for those perfect gifts for your loved ones or even yourself, what is it you really want? Do you want the latest iPhone that has a lot of cool features but will distract you from your fitness goals, cost you lots of cash each month with a data plan, or will take your attention away from your spouse?

Do you want those designer skinny jeans that may make you look skinnier but when you look in the mirror you still see someone overweight? Do you long for those jeans that have a great wash but because you don’t look at yourself and see someone beautiful, you shut down your intimacy attempts? Are you not satisfied with yourself that you keep buying more jeans and clothes to make up for lack of confidence and self-esteem?

If you’re really honest with yourself, you want to be able to look in the mirror with confidence. You want to be able to wear an amazing dress or everyday sweats and still be attractive to your spouse. You want that clear skin and ripped arms, and have the esteem to humbly know you are at your best and no one can knock you off your game. I’m also guessing you don’t want this for only a few months. You want to be the one in your 40s or 50s and your co-workers argue that you’re only in your early 30s. And you proudly tell them your real age.

Before heading out to sweep all the holiday sales, have a gut check and be honest with yourself about what you really desire. You’ve already gotten all the clothes, gadgets, and toys in the past and you’re still not satisfied, why get more of the same?

Do something different this year as we enter next year, to have results for the rest of your life. Join me for a year as we journey together to make the best you. Follow me in a systematic approach to creating the best health (less weight, better sex, more money/less debt), you’ve ever experienced. Gain the tools necessary so you have full control of your results without depriving yourself of what you love or adding things you hate doing. You’re in control.

The only problem is that you have to act fast. I’m only taking 10 people for this program for this last-time offered price. Most likely, you’re going to spend hundreds of dollars on gifts in the next 6 weeks. Instead, invest $97 in yourself to start your T.R.U.E. health journey. This initial investment is for your initial assessment which does not commit you to anything. Though, it does give you the most comprehensive assessment of actual health.

It involves a combination of self-assessments, functional assessments, and physical assessments. This gives you a baseline of 3 essential indexes that you have never been tested for at your doctor that gives you a true measurement of your health potential, your acute and long-term danger for illness, and what dramatic change you can expect from completion of this journey.

The next step is an investment. Honestly, it’s a big investment of your time if you’re looking for short term results. If you’re looking to change your life, then it’s a drop in the time bucket called life. It’s only a $165 down payment to get you started and to get all your equipment that you will need for the next 12 months. The great thing is that your initial $97 assessment will be applied to this $165. Your only responsibility after that is $79/month for 12 months to spend time with me each month training you to be your best doctor, your best nutritionists, your best trainer, and best psychologist.

Compare $79/month to lose weight, have better sex, and make more money/get out of debt to what you pay for a cell phone bill, a cable bill, or even how much you spend eating out each month and there’s truly no comparison. In fairness, compare have stuff to enjoying life. Instead of paying for the initial down payment and monthly fee, get a great discount and only pay $997 for the whole program.

Like I said, you have to act fast. The cut off is December 1. After December 1^st, the price will increase for the next pod. Since I’m only taking 10 people, spots are filling fast. In fact, there are only 3 spots left. Even if you’re not sure about the total program, do the initial assessment to see where you stand compared to what your potential could be.

Register now and register below. Don’t get caught up in the Black Friday hoopla, invest in yourself. Give me a year and I’ll change your whole life. Register now.

10 Reasons Why I Don't Take Insurance

2011-11-15T17:44:00.001-07:00

1. It costs the entire system more money. The more you use your insurance, the more you will pay in premiums each year.

2. It takes my time away from treating you.

3. Insurance is for emergencies. Though creating health is a dire need, insurance is not set up to create health.

4. Insurance coverage is not synonymous with health care. Health is about creating purity and sufficiency. No intervention that insurance covers is designed to do this.

5. For what you pay on insurance I can give you and your family a life of health and wellness for pennies on the dollar.

6. I will not support an industry that does not have my patient's best interest in mind.

7. Insurance is like betting against yourself every month for the rest of your life.

8. It can take a doctor up to a year to get paid. Because the delay in payment, rates are higher. By having an affordable self pay system, I can keep my rates low, which can be paid for using your HSA or Flex plan.

9. It gets more expensive every year.

10. My practice is driven by keeping your health as the top priority, not recommending care based on what your insurance will cover.

This is What I Use

2011-11-15T07:13:00.009-07:00

I can't tell you how many times I get asked "what supplements do you recommend?" And after I tell someone, they then usually ask if I would endorse their product and recommend it to my patients. Honestly, why I love Innate Choice is because of their ethics in manufacturing, marketing, and education and I have not found a company that can match them and do it at a cost effective rate. Check these out. Order and get them shipped to your house. The price includes shipping if living in the continental US.

Food is always best!! Use these to SUPPLEMENT your daily intake, not REPLACE what you should be consuming. Use them to create sufficiency where there is deficiency. Don't use them to treat a condition. Use them because they are ESSENTIAL nutrients.

D-Sufficiency - $22
- Naturally Occurring (D3) from lanolin 500iu/drop (600 Drops/Bottle = 300 Servings)
- Delivered in 100% CERTIFIED ORGANIC OLIVE OIL!
- NO Synthetics

- The innate immune system is the component of our immune system that is genetically programmed to respond to antigens (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and any other threatening non-self invaders). The innate immune system uses what are termed effectors that are genetically coded to respond to antigens or invaders. The most studied of these effectors are named antimicrobial peptides or AMPs. AMPs not only attack the invaders they also trigger tissue repair and activate the adaptive or acquired immune system (the branch of the immune system that creates antibodies to specific antigens after exposure).

-Recent research has shown that vitamin D up-regulates the genetic expression of AMPs in immune cells. Vitamin D also plays an important role in controlling the inflammatory response initiated by specialized immune cells called macrophages. A deficiency of vitamin D means deficient control of inflammation. In the skin vitamin D also activates the immune system against antigens.

Omeg a Sufficiency - $45-$50
- 100% Natural EPA:DHA ratio for optimal absorption and safety.
- 720-825 mg EPA and 480-550 mg DHA per serving.
- 3rd Party Tested for Purity, Potency, and Freshness.
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- Natural, NOT concentrated
- Essential for W eight Control, Heart Function, Pregnancy, Brain Function, and Emotional Wellness.

Pro biotic Sufficiency - $40
- Derived from 100% Vegetarian Culture.
- No dairy, No Goat's Milk, No Soy, No Corn, No Wheat
- 30 Billion Organisms/Serving
- 3rd Party Tested.
- Contains 9 Specific Strains for Humans, not for cows, goats, corn, or soy.
- Because of modern farming, food processing, and food preparation practices, we now consume less than One MILLIONTH the amount of healthy probiotic bacteria to maintain a healthy intestinal ecosystem.
- 30-60 servings.

Required or Recommended?

2011-11-14T16:05:00.002-07:00

This past weekend is a weekend I will never forget as it was the birth of my first child. If you’ve been reading any of my past posts, you will know the desires of myself and my wife were to essentially have a home birth experience in a hospital setting. I know, weird, huh?

We were up front, firm, and not shy about our needs in a cordial, loving manner to whomever we encountered. For example, when the child was born, we declined the vitamin K shot, the eye ointment, and hepatitis B shot. We declined a bath, the PKU testing, because we declined the Group B Strep test, we declined any prophylactic antibiotics and extended observation of both my wife and baby.

As one nurse put it, you guys pretty much broke every rule we have. Therefore we were discharged early with a healthy baby boy, a mom who was wearing trendy clothes that looked like she just stepped out of the salon, not 22 hours of labor, and a dad that could finally take his boxing gloves off.

Honestly, we had a great experience. We had great nurses that knew our desires and were open in communication. Looking back the whole thing makes me kind of laugh. Every time we denied something, we had to sign off that we were going against medical advice. Standard protocol was to then give us a sheet explaining the dangers and risks of not doing what was ‘required.’

What was so amusing is that almost every handout started with a statement to the effect that ‘Colorado State Law requires….’ The next paragraph always started with, ’Parents have a choice….’

If something is required, how then can there be a choice? From dictionary.com the definition of ‘required’ is ‘to have need of…’ So what does ‘need’ mean? Need means ‘an urgent want.’ From my understanding, when you’re told you’re required to do something, in essence you don’t have to. You have a choice.

All these years, I was under the impression that the word ‘required’ meant you had ZERO opportunity to sway from the course desired. I was wrong and I think there are many out there that are also under this faulty presumption.

When it comes to your health, the state (at least in Colorado) cannot impose a requirement. It’s an oxy-moron, like preventative medicine. Medicine cannot prevent anything because in order to be prescribed medicine, you have to have a diagnosis. You cannot prevent something you already have.

I want you to take comfort that you have a choice. But also be advised that when you exercise your choice, you will be confronted with stronger ‘required’ lingo from higher up in the authority food chain with the ending argument that, ‘your baby could die.’ So by exercising your choice, there will be consequences. Why we chose what we did with our baby is the consequence of a pure and sufficient son compared to the common medical practice that assumes everybody is deficient in toxic chemicals and therefore loads them up.

The only thing required in your life is to breath, and honestly, you have a choice to do that too. Health is by choice, not chance. Stop taking risks by gambling with unqualified ‘requirements.’

Group B Suck It

2011-11-10T13:34:00.002-07:00

My wife is just about at 40 weeks pregnant. Early on she tested positive for Group Beta Strep. And ever since, it’s been freak out mode by the midwife and nursing staff, especially since we are not going to treat it. I want you to check out the CDC stats about this HERE.

As we get closer and closer to the delivery, we get more and more pressure to go on the recommended round of antibiotics…OR YOUR BABY WILL DIE. What’s funny about the CDC stat sheet is that it says NOTHING about babies dying. All is says is that those moms that test positive and don’t have it treated, have a 1 in 200 shot of having a baby born with the infection.

So where does this fear come from? Who knows? Maybe it’s because they say the moms that do get treated have only a 1 in 4,000 shot of the baby being born with the infection.

1 in 200 sounds like good odds, especially to those of us who don’t gamble. But when you break the numbers down into a percentage, that ferocious 1 in 200 garbage, translates into a 0.5% chance of our baby getting the infection. In other words we have a 99.5% chance of our baby being completely fine. I like those odds. Yet, our nurse midwife is flustered to the point of saying our baby could die if we don’t treat this often times benign incidence of bacteria.

What is backing up my argument even more with the midwife is that today my wife made it clear that she doesn’t want to do an episiotomy. She doesn’t want to be cut. When requested the nurse midwife was like, “You have nothing to worry about. I’ve done over 200 births and had to only cut 5 women to get a distressed baby out. It’s rare that I would ever do that.”

Hmmm, you’re telling me that a 5 in 200 chance is nothing to worry about but a 1 in 200 chance has the potential for my BABY TO DIE? You’re telling me I have nothing to worry about when I have a 2.5% chance of something bad happening compared to only having a 0.5% chance.

This is why we’re adamant of not letting the hospital gamble with our child’s health. Neither should you. I can’t urge you enough to do your research. As part of that, know their numbers. Most of the time, you can use their stats against them and hopefully shed some light on their dogmatic practices. It’s kind of fun. To get even more certain with your health care decisions, like this facebook page. I want you to also check out www.TheFatherLife.com/mag as I will be a contributing author with a series on raising a drug-free kid from a drug-free dad.

I’m Such a Fool

2011-11-10T10:44:00.003-07:00

I’m such a fool. After sending my last newsletter, I realized that I wasn’t very clear on some things. I’ve had a bunch of questions regarding the T.R.U.E. Health Innate Lifestyle Program that I talked about last time.

If you remember, I had a goal for 2011 that I did not complete…and it was totally my own fault. I waited and waited for the right timing to register for the Boulder ½ Ironman race that took place this past August. I waited for the perfect time to register.

I could have saved some money by registering before 2011 but wanted to make sure we had a great Christmas, especially since it was potentially my last Christmas with my wife before we started planning for kids.

I felt the perfect timing would have been when I got my tax return in the Spring of 2011. That would have given me enough time to start training, get the equipment I needed, and be all set. But I waited too long. When my tax refund came around, the race had filled up already. Big fail on my part.

Sure I saved some money by not having to register for the race but you know what? I don’t remember a single thing I bought last Christmas or even what my tax return was but I do remember the fact that I said I was going to do something and came up short. That drives me nuts.

What health goal did you have in 2011 that you said you were going to complete but totally bailed on due to the obvious reasons of time and money? Do you regret that? Do you still want to reach that goal?

Like I said last time, I have a perfect solution to not only reach your health goals of 2011, since there is still time, but to also reach them for 2012. It’s called the T.R.U.E. Health Innate Lifestyle Program. For more information about the program, you can click HERE.

Those are the features of the program. What I want you to understand is not what you get for the program but what you’ll get out of the program. You may be a parent that has energetic kids and you can’t keep up. They look at you as Superman or Superwomen as a toddler. What’s it worth to you for your child, when they are a teenager to look at you and still think you’re Superman or Superwoman?

You may have a family history of a certain disease. Rest assured, you can change those outcomes. Your DNA only plays about 2% into your outcomes. The beauty is that you have the power to change how your DNA expresses. What’s it worth to you to not feel like a victim of your family’s ailments? What’s it worth to you to be making strides to not just manage an illness but have the confidence to reverse it or prevent it all together? Sounds radical, right?

That’s why I have such confidence in my T.R.U.E. Health approach. It matches your actions to what is required for you to achieve your goal. You CAN lose weight. You CAN get healthy enough to get off your medications. You CAN reverse your diabetes.

“Dr. Kurt, it sounds like I will have to do a bunch of stuff I don’t want to do.” You want to know something? I will never ask you to give up anything you love until you’re ready. You’re in control, I’m here to guide you and help you make your goals easy, comfortable, and lasting.

“Dr. Kurt, am I going to have to give up all my hobbies to complete this?” No way. Your time commitment is very little. Can you spare 90 minutes per month for each workshop? Can you spare 30 seconds/day to fill out your personal online journal? That’s all it takes out of your schedule.

“Dr. Kurt, am I going to have to buy a bunch of stuff in order to get results?” Heck no. As part of the pricing, you get all the equipment you will ever need to perform anything instructed. And the best part is that you can do it all from the comfort of your living room.

“Dr. Kurt, this sounds expensive, how much is this going to cost me?” Honestly, what’s expensive is chronic illness. Someone with diabetes spends on average of $13,000 every single year to manage their condition. To complete your health goals in an easy, comfortable, and lasting manner, your initial cost is only $97.

This $97 is for your initial assessment. This does not commit you to anything. It involves a combination of self-assessments, functional assessments, and physical assessments. This gives you a baseline of 3 essential indexes that you have never been tested for at your doctor that gives you a true measurement of your health potential, your acute and long-term danger for illness, and what dramatic change you can expect from completion of this journey.

To take the next step into reversing diabetes, getting off cholesterol drugs, and being able to keep up with your kids and grandkids, there’s a $165 down payment. Your initial evaluation will be applied to this, which gets you started with all the equipment you need to start and complete this 12 month process. After the initial down payment, it’s only $79/month for 12 months. Or get a discount by choosing to pay in full for only $997.

How much are you spending on your cell phone plan, your cable bill, or your health insurance premium? Are any of these moving you in the direction of completing your health goal? For the price of a cell phone plan, you can add years to your life and life to your years. I know it sounds a bit cliché but it’s true.

Take action on your health goals you set at the beginning of 2011 now. You made them for a reason. You might not be happy with the way you look. You may be tired of feeling like crap. You or someone in your family may have even had a health scare recently that left you concerned that life cannot be taken for granted any longer. It doesn’t matter if you feel it is a good reason. If it’s reason enough to take action, it’s a great reason.

Part of taking action NOW is that I’m limiting this pod to only 10 people. The other reason to act now is that the pricing for this complete health transformation will be increasing substantially after December 1. Lastly, this pod will begin in December, that’s only about 3 weeks away to get registered. After December 1, you’re out of luck. Take action now to reach your 2011 health goals and to get this last time-offer special pricing. Put away the excuses, it’s time to take control. Register NOW.

Sprue You

2011-11-08T12:37:00.003-07:00

As all the major eating holidays approach, I am seeing more and more shows featuring recipes that are gluten free to accommodate those with Celiac Sprue. This is sensitivity to gluten, a protein found in many grains. More and more people are being diagnosed with this “disease.”

You may question why I put disease in quotation marks. If I told you I had an allergy or sensitivity to rat poison would you say that’s a disease? No, that’s the body doing what it’s supposed to do to try and adapt to a toxin.

Gluten is a toxin. Medicine will try and convince you that it’s because of a genetic weakness or deficiency that makes you sensitive to it. Not true. From an evolutionary point of view our gene pool hasn’t changed in 10,000+ years. From a creation point of view, our genes haven’t changed in…well, never. It’s not possible for so much genetic variation to occur in less than 100 years. This is the same argument for the raise in autism, type-1 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, obesity, and every ailment that seems to be in the Merck Manual. They cannot be genetic.

Our ancestor brothers and sisters rarely if ever ate grains. They were not a staple in the diet. They thrived on clean meats, fruits, veggies, and pure water. Then came along agriculture and grains were processed into everything. As a result, we, as a species started getting sicker, fatter, and dumber.

To say you’re allergic to something that’s poisonous is not possible. So when we have all these talk shows and news programs showing us gluten free recipes, my ears perk up because now we’re cooking with stuff that we’re supposed to eat…maybe.

It turns out you can still have every sugary pastry, dessert, and sweet in a gluten free format. Yes, it’s gluten free but it’s still poisonous and people get the misguided safety and security that, “hey, it’s gluten free, I can eat as much of it as I want.”

If you put enough cream, sugar, and flavoring on a brick, that brick will taste good too. Actually, I’m not sure if a brick is gluten free, don’t take my word that recipe is safe for celiac's. All the other stuff surrounding that gluten free treat is also toxic. Want to be gluten free, eat for your genetics...clean meat, veggies, fruits, and pure water.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a good probability that I will partake in some sweets this season. But also know, I do this in full awareness that there are going to be consequences, whether I feel them or not. If something is not beneficial, then it’s detrimental. In health, there’s really no middle ground. The law of averages doesn’t work for cell balance.

For a cell (you x 7 Trillion) to stay balanced, it needs the good stuff. When it doesn’t get it, the balance goes south. The more south it goes, the more good stuff you need to regain balance. When people chant the mantra ‘all things in moderation,’ their cell health is already way south and their moderation of beneficial and detrimental is only keeping a poorly functioning cell, poorly functioning. Just to be clear, no drug is ever going to help your cells create balance. All drugs do is make you feel better and may slow the progression of dipping, as your cell function continues to drop south.

This is why lifestyle is SO SO SO SO important and ESSENTIAL for creating health. Lifestyle decisions, the choices you make, are the single, greatest determinant of health. Eating gluten free candy is a lifestyle choice. Taking a drug to cover a symptom is a lifestyle choice. Choosing stairs instead of an elevator is a lifestyle choice. Choosing to read this blog and pass it along to all your friends is a lifestyle choice.

The more right stuff you do the better outcomes you have. If you have no idea what you are doing right, I encourage you to take this free 2 minute self assessment. It’s honestly a pass-fail grade but doesn’t mean you are doing everything wrong if you get the fail grade. I’m sure you are doing many things right. Along with the assessment, I’ll contact you so you know what you’re doing right and how to build from that base.

If you know you need help and need to take that next step, please read this. You are your greatest asset. Invest wisely.