Dr Harte-Correcting The Cause

Whitney Houston and Degenerate Drug Attitudes, by Corte Madera Chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:52:00 +0000

Amazing! All what's going on in the world, and everyone's focused on the deification of Whitney Houston. If I hear, on more time, what a great role model she was for African-American women, women in general, whatever, I might just throw up.

Did she have a great voice? Yes! Did she have a great career in music? Yes. Did she throw it all away from drug abuse? Yes!

Drug abuse? I am not just talking about her so-called recreational drugs. Though the rest of society may differentiate between legal and illegal drugs, the body does not, so I do not. Load up on foreign chemicals, legal or illegal, and the body has nowhere to go but down. Down at 48? Now that's an accomplishment.

Same thing, if not worse, with the death of Michael Jackson. Now his drug dealer, his personal MD, is in prison.

I remember, a long time ago, when Elvis died. If my memory serves me, he had something like 28 different drugs in his system, all legally prescribed.

The abuse of drugs, illegal or legal, should be shunned by society. This is chasing symptoms, chasing moments of mood elevation, chasing chemical phantoms. This type of thinking is encouraged by our sick, over-medicalized society.

Learn to trust in the Innate Intelligence that is naturally within. One of the first concepts that I was taught in chiropractic college is "Nature needs no help, only no interference."

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Inate

Gov't Health Nazis in Schools, says Corte Madera Chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:57:00 +0000

There is more and more talk about federal health inspectors inspecting kids' school lunches. Once again, Big Brother in a White Coat knows better than you, we're told. Parents, Big Brother is taking over your kids, what they eat. What's next?

The really scary part is I have been listening to some spokeswoman from HHS, portraying this whole thing as an opportunity. (Was Hitler an "opportunity?" Stalin? Pol Pot?) She said that one third of all schoolchildren are obese, and this is contributing to widespread diabetes, as well as other health problems in children.

Really? What is their standard for obesity? And how much of that obesity is caused by computer games and TV replacing going outside to play? How much obesity is caused by the garbage that the whole family eats? What then? Will government inspectors, if you have an obese child, break into your home to check for illegal Doritos, or frozen whatever?

How much obesity in children is caused by altered metabolism from the serial chemical and biological assault upon them through vaccinations? The Health Nazis want to bring up diabetes in kids? Hey, when I was a kid, we were packed some pretty bad sandwiches, almost all of them encased in that classic pseudobread, Wonder Bread. (The latex in it put a spring in our steps. But now, the kids can get their latex dose from the vaccines. Type I diabetes, what was then called juvenile diabetes? It was so rare that almost no one knew any kids that had it. Did we have some fat kids? Sure, but none of them were diabetic. What was the big change since the fifties? We went from maybe six vaccinations through school to over eighty. This is like taking a shotgun to the developing immune systems of children. Funny thing... type I diabetes is considered an auto-immune disorder.

And who orders all the vaccinations? The government. So, the government causes the problem, then steps in to solve it. One more excuse to stomp on your right to decide on health in general, and how you live your life. It's called liberty.

One more thought... All these years, the government-provided school lunches have been awful. If they were served in prisons, the ACLU would probably file suit. What about nutritional value when the government is making the food?

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Is Casual Chiropractic a Menace, asks Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:45:00 +0000

Chiropractors, as a group, are a mellow lot. Some are excessively mellow, even terminally so.

I understand the feeling that chiropractors want to distance themselves from Medicine, from the formality. (Some are real medical wannabees, who might even sleep in their white coats and stethoscopes.) Yes, a chiropractor should distance himself from Medicine. More to the point, a chiropractor should be doing the detection, analysis and correction of vertebral subluxation... no more, no less. A chiropractor should NOT be doing diagnosis and treatment, which is, by definition, the practice of Medicine.

If you are paying attention to what's going on in what is alleged to be health care, you will have realized that a huge percentage of the science in Medicine is bogus, some by accident, and some purposely fraudulent. But that is no excuse for a chiropractor to be anti-science. Indeed, Chiropractic has long been defined as an art, a philosophy and a SCIENCE. With that science comes a seriousness, hopefully a passion, for the proper, lifetime correction of Vertebral Subluxation for as many people in his or her community as is humanly possible. No, this is not a War on Back Pain. This is a war on THE most serious threat to health, Vertebral Subluxation, in order to allow a fuller expression of Health, of Life.

The gravity of Vertebral Subluxation cannot be underestimated. It allows all the nasty smaller things like headache, indigestion, fatigue. It allows the really ugly things like stroke, heart attack, cancer (ew! did I violate some law mentioning "cancer" as a chiropractor?), auto-immune diseases. And it disallows the full expression of Life... physically, mentally, socially. This is especially true of subluxation in children. They are developing, growing. If they are subluxated, they cannot fully express their genetic potential. Subluxation is no simple backache issue. It is critical. Above all people, chiropractors must realize this. if they don't, they are failing in their duty to society. If a chiropractor fails to take Vertebral Subluxation seriously, that chiropractor should not be taken seriously.

"Serious" includes proper Science, Art and Philosophy. Proper science? A good history, exam, nerve scans, X-rays, with a defined schedule of care, with periodic progressive exams. Art? One or a combination of well-defined chiropractic techniques, to properly correct subluxation. Philosophy? A philosophy of life and health, understanding that healing, and health, only comes from Above-down, Inside-out.

Is casual chiropractic a menace? I think so, because it doesn't take vertebral subluxation, YOUR vertebral subluxation, YOUR health, YOUR life... seriously.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Actos, Diabetes and Death by Dr Harte, Corte Madera Chiropractor

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000

The latest, of several diabetes drugs, to go from Wonder Drug to Blunder Drug is Actos. It seems this one can kill through heart attacks, like the others.

Then, it's been learned that the statin drugs (to lower cholesterol), because they interfere with carbohydrate metabolism, can lead to diabetes. Of course, this leads to treatment that leads to heart disease. Is this nuts, or what?

These drugs, with their bogus research that proves secondary effects like lowering cholesterol, never got anyone well. Why? You can't get health from a pill. You don't get diabetes from a DEFICIENCY of Actos, or any other diabetes medication. You get diabetes (type II) from a pancreas (and to a lesser extent), a liver and adrenals) that don't function properly. Vertebral subluxation interferes with function. Chiropractic adjustment restores function by allowing the body to do what it is supposed to do.

Health does not come from Outside-in. It only comes from Above-down, Inside-out.

If you detect a little extra passion in this post, it's because my father was killed by the medical treatment of his diabetes. He was 53.

Tell everyone you know who will listen about Chiropractic. You may save a life. You will certainly change lives.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Chiropractic isn't Alternative Anything says Corte Madera Chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:22:00 +0000

I kind of cringe whenever someone puts Chiropractic in the slot of alternative, natural or complementary Medicine. I know that it's not meant in a nasty way. It's just that it's so wrong.

The operative word in Natural Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Complementary Medicine is, well... Medicine. Medicine is NOT an all-encompassing word for everything involving health. What Medicine is defined as is the diagnosis and treatment of disease. This is carried through whether it be traditional, "western" Medicine, or accupuncture, or herbal Medicine, whatever. All of these systems utilize the Educated Intelligence of the practitioner to heal the body from the Outside-in, in other words, to tell the body what to do.

Chiropractic is separate and distinct. The Principle of Chiropractic is that healing... health... only comes from Above-down, Inside-out. By the correction of nerve interference, Vertebral Subluxation through the chiropractic adjustment, the body heals itself, expresses more of Life. This is different... fundamentally different. from everything else.

A sad thing is when some of my lesser colleagues do not understand this, and they mistakenly guide people in the wrong direction, presenting Chiropractic as a natural treatment of back pain. Not so.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
liberator of Innate

One Drug Leads to Another, says Corte Madera Chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:03:00 +0000

I know someone who is currently suffering from antibiotic-resistant pneumonia. There's been more and more talk in scientific circles about this problem. This is a monster created in the Castle of Medicine.

Medicine, with its innate arrogance, always wants to fool Mother Nature. This is foolish. We are accustomed to the idea that we big animals evolve. What we forget is that the tiniest organisms, like bacteria, evolve, too. Because of their rapid rate of reproduction, they evolve infinitely faster than we do. In her 1995 book, The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett postulated that because of our abuse of antibiotics, we have advanced microbial evolution by three million years. Now, we see the sad, sometimes fatal results.

Any relevant history to this person with pneumonia? Sure. She has asthma, and is being treated with corticosteroids, which suppress the immune system.

Isn't it simpler, safer, SANER, to get adjusted, allowing your body to heal, to function normally?

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Does This Make Heart Disease Better, asks Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:06:00 +0000

Here's a popular heart drug, Verapamil, specifically for the treatment of high blood pressure and angina. Check out those side effects. Note that some of those side effects listed show that the drug can make the heart worse, even TERMINALLY so, as in dead. Huh? Yes. This is what is called in Medicine a "paradoxical effect," the opposite of what one expects.

Well, when you try to just suppress symptoms, instead of correcting the cause (as Chiropractic does), you're going to run into problems

Verapamil

A calcium channel blocker used for
the management of hypertension and angina

WARNINGS:
Heart failure
Hypotension
Elevated liver enzymes

ADVERSE REACTIONS:
Cardiovascular: angina pectoris, AV block (2° & 3°), atrioventricular dissociation, congestive heart failure, pulmonary edema, chest pain, claudication, myocardial infarction (heart attack), palpitations, purpura (vasculitis), syncope (fainting).

Digestive system: diarrhea, dry mouth, gastrointestinal distress, gingival (gums) hyperplasia.

Hemic and lymphatic: ecchymosis or bruising.

Nervous system: cerebro-vascular accident (stroke), confusion, equilibrium disorders, insomnia, muscle cramps, psychotic symptoms, shakiness, somnolence (excessive sleeping).

Skin: arthralgia (pin in the joints) and rash, exanthema, hair loss, hyperkeratosis, macules, sweating, urticaria (hives), Stevens-Johnson syndrome, erythema multiforme.

Special senses: blurred vision, tinnitus (ringing in the ears).

Urogenital: gynecomastia (men growing breasts), galactorrhea/hyperprolactinemia, increased urination, spotty menstruation, impotence.

Other: allergy aggravated, dyspnea (difficulty breathing).

Or, you can go for health. If you has better nerve supply to the heart, might it work better? Might you be healthier... naturally?

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Heart Disease, Stroke: A Chiropractic Answer from Corte Madera?

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:09:00 +0000

For a long time, heart disease has been the biggest killer. #3 is stroke, which is also circulatory. So, add up #1 and #3, and the amount of death is staggering.

So much effort, so much money, goes to heart disease and stroke. So much is accepted as FACT. Every "breakthrough" loses it shine, if not outright collapses, in a few years. With everyone getting checked, and on blood pressure and cholesterol pills, no one should be getting a heart attack, right? Are you being fooled, on a massive scale? Or is society's focus just in the wrong direction.

What if your heart had the right nerve input, beating exactly as it should, when it should, reacting to differing conditions as it should? That would be a healthy heart.

Should you make sure that that nerve supply is as good as it can be? Can't get that from a cardiologist. Gotta go to a chiropractor for that.

February is Heart Health Month. You have a heart or circulatory history, or are currently having problems, living on multiple drugs for this... forever?

Seek health. Get adjusted.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

Wellness... Scientifically Defined: Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:31:00 +0000

We walk a lot about wellness. I have previously written about how the word has been hijacked and abused.

Looking through some of the scientific studies I have available in the office, I came upon one of my favorites, "Surrogate Indication of DNA repair in Serum After Long term Chiropractic Intervention - A Retrospective Study," by Campbell, Kent, Banne, Amiri and Pero, in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research.

Basically, this stuff in the blood (serum), serum thiol, is recognized as an indicator of the body's ability to repair it's own DNA. Contrary to what i was taught in school 100 years ago, our DNA is NOT static. Parts get turned on and off, depending upon life conditions (especially neurological). that's epigenetics, but a discussion of that is for another time. DNA, through life, gets damaged, and consequently, will not work as well. Yes the body can repair that damaged DNA. But how well?

This study shows that those under long-term wellness chiropractic care actually, verifiably, get wellness. This is why I say that Chiropractic is true health care. If you want the diagnosis and treatment of disease, which is Medicine, then go for it. You want health... wellness? Get checked for Vertebral Subluxation. Get adjusted.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Double your Drugs? wonders Corte Madera Chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:29:00 +0000

Like some people watch sports on TV, I watch the drug ads, looking for the latest frightening trends of the latest fads in Medicine. Oh, I also check out the lawyer ads, looking for clients damaged or killed (in this case, their loved ones) from a particular drug or procedure. Hey, this is the only justice we get. The FDA? As they say in my native New York, FUGETTABOUTIT!!!

It seems a new, very frightening trend is, rather than replace a drug patients are taking with another, they are pushing the idea of adding another for the same symptom or condition. "If Scungilexa is not working as well as you expected, add Toxecia to your regimen. I have seen this for two conditions/circumstances.

For quite some time, the drug pushers (I forgot which one) has had ads out, "If your anti-depressants aren;t quite enough, add Abilify." What they don't tell you is Abilify is NOT and anti-depressant; it is anti-psychotic. As if anti-depressants aren't bad enough, anti-psychotics are considerably more dangerous. Some of their side effects are permanent, including tardive dyskinesia. (Google that one yourself. Frightening!)

The last few days, I have been seeing ads for Intuniv, a drug they say to throw at your ADHD child, who may not be totally perfect on his legal speed (Ritalin, Adderall, etc.) This one works on the frontal lobe. Charming, huh? Oh, and your child may faint.

Can't people see that this means that Big Pharma's much vaunted drugs just don't work? Why ad more junk that won't work, with more side effects?

Is this science, or is it fads? It can't be both. Think on that!

"Ew-ew-ew, but what else can I do? The Doctor said I need (my child needs) these medications." Really? Are you having mental troubles because of a lack of Lexapro or Ambilify? Is your child ADHD because of a deficiency of Ritalin and Intuniv?

Get to the cause. Free your brain and your nervous system, so that your brain and your body can function as it should. get checked. Get adjusted. And tell the people you care about.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Wellness, by Corte Madera Chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:35:00 +0000

The PMG (Pharmaceutical-Medical-Governmental) Complex has stolen the word, and the concept, “WELLNESS.” Wellness is kind of an updated version of the concept of good health, or the more popular “healthy lifestyle.” All the while, Kaiser Permanente, in their endless ads, insists that it will help you “thrive.” Lotsa luck!

What does Medicine have to offer in the way of health or wellness? NOTHING. I am not saying that there is no place for Medicine, nor am I saying that Medicine is populated by bad people. What I am bringing out to you is that the purpose, the intent, of Medicine is NOT health, though it is commonly referred to as “health care.” Medicine is, by definition, the diagnosis and treatment of disease. They define and attack the disease, which has nothing to do with achieving wellness.

Realize that everything Medicine does, essentially drugs and surgery, is “Outside-in.” If we were born with a DEFICIENCY OF DRUGS AND AN EXCESS OF ORGANS, this process would achieve health. Alas, this is not to be. Being brutally honest, there is nothing in Medicine that promotes wellness.

Wellness, or “the healthy lifestyle,” if you prefer, is based upon healing, and function, from Above-down, Inside-out. People talk about the body’s ability to heal itself. Harvard book-writing M.D.’s like Deepak Chopra and Andrew Weil have become celebrities spouting this as revelation. Chiropractors have been saying this since 1895.

Want wellness? Eat well, exercise, rest well and maintain a healthy mental attitude. MOST IMPORTANTLY? Achieve and maintain a healthy brain and nervous system, as free as possible from interference… subluxation… so that they can control and coordinate every cell, tissue, organ and system in the body for the benefit of the whole. THIS IS CHIROPRACTIC.

You might say that so-and-so is healthy. Well, they may not be obviously sick. But if they are subluxated, by definition, they are not healthy. They are not well.

Regular lifetime chiropractic care is THE most important factor in Wellness.

Don Harte, D.C.

Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor

Liberator of Innate

"Overdiagnosed?" asks Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:50:00 +0000

I've been reading a very interesting book, OVER-DIAGNOSED: Making people sick in the pursuit of health.

I've long talked about the futility of diagnosis itself. This book examines all the harm done by over-diagnosing, of wrongly labeling people sick with a particular disease, and causing harm by the treatment.

In my opinion, this speaks to the current clamor for MORE in so-called health care; MORE testing, more screening, MORE drugs, MORE surgery, MORE access. Perhaps this is why the USA is, by far, #1 in medical spending, and so very far down in actual health statistics. MORE is not necessarily better; it is often worse.

Drs. Welch, Schwartz and Woloshin write about how, overnight, millions became patients when lab normals for blood pressure were dropped, or blood sugar. Or when imaging studies became so good that most people have some abnormaility. Whether that alleged abnormality has any pathological significance...

Yes, they even get into the over-diagnosis of many cancers, especially breast and prostate cancer.

Things to think on.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

"Where to pursue health," asks Marin chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Where does health come from?

Does it come from fighting disease? No. Vanquishing a disease, suppressing symptoms, brings you no closer to health. in fact, the suppression of these natural processes often causes more serious problems in the future. Cause was not addressed.

Does health come from "prevention?" No. Vaccination brings about an artificial, non-normal immunity, and that's sometimes. Sometimes, it just doesn't work. At the same time, vaccination causes chronic inflammation, and dumps a terrible toxic loan into the body. Surely, you cannot poison yourself to health. Then, there is excessive, unwarranted treatment for "pre disease," such as pre-hypertension, or pre-diabetes. The treatment causes harm, bringing you further from health.

Does health come from "early detection?" Because of fiddling with "lab normals," mostly because of the influence of Big Pharma, so many previously healthy people are deemed sick, and then made truly sick by treatment. With better and better imaging technology, so much is detected that virtually everyone has abnormalities that can be construed as pathology. This is, in reality, early gathering of medical patients. This is not health.

Health is a condition of wholeness, in which all of the cells, tissues, organs and systems are working for the benefit of the whole. Should you eat well, exercise, get good rest and maintain a good attitude? You betcha.

THE most important factor in finding and maintaining health, with more improvement over the years, is lifetime wellness chiropractic care. Your own innate intelligence is freed to control and coordinate body and mind, when interference to the nervous system is corrected. Simple.

You want health/ Get adjusted.

Don Harte, D.C.
corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Risky Stroke Surgery: Comments from Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:33:00 +0000

In yesterday's SF Chronicle was a sad story about one more medical/surgical catastrophe. Read it.

Just tonight, one of our practice members told me of a friend who had carpal tunnel surgery, got a nocosomial (hospital) infection in the bone, and ended up having his pinky cut off.

In what other industry would this level of poor result leading so so much misery be tolerated?

Is there another way? You betcha! I know what you're thinking. "Not for what I have." Right. in the end, everything is neurological. When there is interference in the messaging between the brain and the body, and the body to the brain, bad things happen. Get those interferences corrected, and good things happen. It's called health. Chiropractors give more than lip service to the idea, "The body heals itself." Of course it does.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte comments on Red Wine Fiasco

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:05:00 +0000

Today news came out that all of the studies saying that the consumption of red wine had a positive effect on cardiovascular health were falsified.

Time to think. Red wine isn't some blockbuster drug making billions for Big Pharma. It's been around since the ancient Greeks if not before. But this guy put out allegedly scholarly, allegedly scientific, allegedly peer-reviewed studies that made it "common knowledge" that red wine helps the heart. This even had a popular name, "The French Paradox."

Time to think. If research in favor of something as common and innocuous as red wine can be faked, successfully, for many years, what about all of the pharmaceutical research, with all the money riding on that?

Hey, you want good cardiovascular health? Make sure that the nerve supply to the heart, the blood vessels, and contributing organs (lungs, adrenals, thyroid, kidneys, etc.) is free of interference. For that, you get adjusted.

Go home, enjoy some red wine (or white, since it doesn't matter anymore), and think about this. Whom do you trust? In here, in my office, I encourage people to trust their own Innate Intelligence.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Dr Harte talks Real Health Care in the New Year

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:54:00 +0000

"Medicine concerns itself with disease and how men die. Chiropractic concerns itself with health, and why men live." - Clarence Gonstead, D.C.

Had enough yet? If you're not disgusted by the state of so-called health care, you're not paying attention. No, it's not for lack of money. The USA is #1 in health care spending, yet #49 in life expectancy (down from #29 in 1999). No, it's not from "lack of access." Often, the more medical care that one gets, the sicker one gets. Why?

Please read, again, the quote above. Realize that Medicine is the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Their intentions may be good, but the focus is disease, not health. you cannot get healthy by fighting disease, even by "prevention." Health is NOT from drugs or surgeries. As I have said before, if that were true, then the people who take the most drugs and who have had the most surgeries would be the healthiest. Feh.

The focus of Chiropractic is health. (No, the focus of Chiropractic is NOT backaches.) Your brain and nervous system runs every cell, tissue, organ and system in the body. Any interference will alter normal function. The most common interference is Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC). Chiropractors do not diagnose, nor do we treat. We correct interference to the nervous system, VSC, allowing the body to function at a higher level. No gimmicks. No breakthroughs that will become fodder for late night TV ads for lawyers doing class action suits. I was taught in school, "The wonder drug of today will be the blunder drug of tomorrow." Yes, this is true.

So, don't you think that real health care should help you to attain health? You'll never get there by chasing symptoms. You'll get there by allowing the body to function properly, without interference.

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Eugenics and Medical Complicity by Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:24:00 +0000

Today, it was reported that the State of North Carolina is making reparations to people who had had forced sterilizations. Are we going back ages ago? No. The last of this was in 1974. Many other states engaged in this, in the name of eugenics, for "improving the human race."

People are quick to point to political leaders for condemnation, and rightfully so. But this could not have been done without the active complicity of the medical profession. It was medical doctors who actually performed these forced sterilizations.

Go back in history. Psychiatrists, under Stalin, put political dissidents into mental hospitals, doing all sorts of horrific things. Then there was Dr. Mengele and his colleagues in the Nazi death camps.

This is just something to think about. When the PMG (Pharmaceutical-Medical-Governmental) complex thinks that they know best for you, and that they have the right to force you to do what they think is good for you, BEWARE.

What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

"Is Medicine a Rip-Off?" asks Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:40:00 +0000

A new Practice Member of mine, who just started, suffered a rear-end collision last month. No fractures, no blood and guts. But enough for her car to be totaled. Enough for her to be massively subluxated. Currently, she is in a great deal of pain. If these subluxations are left uncorrected, she very likely will suffer chronic pain and a variety of visceral complaints. Yes, she will likely get chronically sick from those subluxations sustained in that rear-ender. And, after some years, her spine will quickly advance into serious Subluxation Degeneration, what other people might call spinal arthritis. The medical folks will never understand this. There really is no place for them here.

Yet, before she came to me, because of her pain, she went to the emergency room, on two occasions. Nothing fancy was done, no MRI's, etc. In fact, nothing was done for her that had any value whatsoever. The bill for these two visits? Over $8,000, DISCOUNTED because she had no insurance. THIS IS ROBBERY. It is a disgrace!

And yet some people will bitch and moan over the $87 charge for an adjustment visit here. Here, in the Land of Straight Chiropractic, we deal with CAUSE. I correct CAUSE. this allows the body to heal itself. This is the only true healing.

Whatever chiropractic care ends up to cost, that cost is a joke compared to medical care. (Do you still think it's free because it's covered by your insurance? Does that insurance come from the sky?)

The detection, analysis and correction of Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC), which IS Chiropractic, is life-changing, even life-saving. If chiropractic care, freeing the body to function properly for a particular person, prevents a stroke eight years from now, or enables someone to dump their very dangerous psychiatric drugs, or finally get some sleep, or ends twenty-seven years of migraines, or enables a child to reach his or her genetic potential, WHAT IS THAT WORTH?

What do you think?

Medicine vs. Chiropractic? You might check out the very telling story on my website.

Be Well,
Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Another sad vaccine story posted by Corte Madera chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:45:00 +0000

Parent Finds It Hard to Ignore Evidence of Vaccine Injury. "After those well-baby visits, she was often ill for weeks, yet I was told that was not a concern. Her regression into autism at 18 months developed after her MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine. She ran a fever for days, developed an intense rash, stopped using words and began to have visual issues. I am the daughter of a doctor and also the mother to a teen with severe autism. She was a baby who was vaccinated on time because I believed in vaccination. I wish I could tell you that there was a cure or a happy ending, but I can't at this time. My daughter's condition continued to worsen, and she began having seizures this past year. Testing has now also shown an autoimmune process. It is getting hard to ignore the thousands of other parents like me who have witnessed similar scenarios with either acute vaccine injury or a progressive deterioration of their children's immune systems. We don't like it and wish we believed, like many of you, that vaccines could never harm, could never cause seizures, autoimmune disease, mitochondrial dysfunction, gastrointestinal disease and encephalopathy-all of which are the medical terms describing-autism." Theresa Conrick, Janesville Gazette (WI).Dec. 5, 2011.

Courtesy of the National Vaccine Information Center. Support them! Make a difference.

Though they don't realize it, those who 'believe in" vaccinations" do not, cannot believe in Innate Intelligence, the body's own amazing ability to heal, to organize itself, etc. In Chiropractic, we recognize that the body needs no help, just no interference. Chiropractors deal with, correct, the interference.

Don Harte, D.C.

Marin Straight Chiropractor

Depression During the Holidays, viewed by Corte Madera Chiropractor

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:54:00 +0000

Some people tend toward the depressive side of things. When things are not right, family-wise or relationship-wise, the Holidays often deepen these feelings.

So, what's a chiropractor doing talking about depression? Do I treat depression? No! (I don't treat backache either.) What I deal with, as a straight chiropractor, is the nervous system. I adjust to correct interference (subluxation) to that system.

Contrary to what many think, the brain is not isolated in a box, the skull. It is, of course, part of the nervous system. The brain is contiguous with the cord and the nerves. Any interference, any torsion, anywhere in the spinal column, will effect the brain. Additionally, any interference to other organs will effect metabolism, which will effect the brain.

Instead of going on the made-up theory of "biochemical imbalance" as a cause of mental illness such as depression, and taking dangerous drugs in an absurd effort at balance, why not just do what makes sense? Correct interference to the nervous system. Then, the nervous system, including the brain, is free to work better.

No, getting adjusted does not change the problems that may surround you. But, it may help you deal with those problems, and put a smile on your face. Then, there's all the singing, dancing toys in my office and all the happy people.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Marin Runners with Knee Pain

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:43:00 +0000

How many serious runners are plagued with knee pain? Well, how many runners are serious, plus many who are not.

What do you do? Most take Advil or Tylenol, which only covers up the pain. Take enough of that stuff, long enough, and you end up damaging your liver, kidneys and stomach. And, by interfering with the natural process of inflammation, these anti-inflammatories cause increased damage to injured joints, especially as you continue to run. You think you're OK when you pop some pills that killed the pain? Think again!

You might, after a time, go see an orthopedist. After all kinds of allegedly definitive, scientific tests, you will receive some useless diagnosis, and probably be given stronger anti-inflammatory drugs, which will "work better," at least for a time, and end up doing even more damage to joints and organs. You might be directed to waste time at physical therapy. Eventually, the orthopedist will be sharpening his or her scalpel. These days, they are prone to just tear the whole knee out, and put in a fake one. Aside from the horrendous cost in pain, time and money, do you really think that this fake knee will be equivalent to a real one. (I know you got the standard "bone-on'bone" talk. It's, for the most part, BS.) Realize that these things wear out in seven or eight years; then, it's time for another replacement. This whole thing is barbaric!

If you have knee pain, the rational course of action would be to get to the cause. First, Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC) must be corrected. This will allow the knee and the whole lower extremity to function right, and to heal, as well as increase coordination and balance, and improve your gait. This is standard in straight Chiropractic. Further, in my practice, I check and adjust extremities as well as the spine. So, I would check, and adjust as necessary, the bones of your knee, and your meniscus (and your other knee), hips, and feet. Doesn't that make sense?

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Dr Harte: Making a Healthy Marin Sick

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:21:00 +0000

I just sent this as an op ed to the Marin IJ:

TRYING TO MAKE A HEALTHY MARIN SICK?

The recent column by Jason Eberhart-Phillips, M.D., Marin’s Public Health Officer (“To Parents who skip kids’ vaccinations”), condemns, even belittles Marin parents who dare think for themselves, and act in the best interests of their children (as opposed to the interests of the State). It is the medical party line, more representative of a state religion rather than science. His comments are girded by his certainty that the State knows better than the parent, and that the State has the right, or should have the right, to force whatever medical measures they choose upon children, and, indeed, adults. The party line is even reflected in IJ headlines. The second page headline (for the article in question) is “Taking chances,” alluding that non-vaccinating parents are not responsible. Back in September, when I faced off against Dr. Eberhart-Phillips at the Marin Board of Supervisors meeting, the headline was “County: Students should have inoculation chance.” That was never the issue. Kids should have a chance at real health, which does not come from the artificially-induced, abnormal immune responses that vaccinations produce.

The issue here is vaccination, and the numbers/percentages of parents who utilize the “personal belief exemption,” or PBE, which Dr. Eberhart-Phillips decries. Statewide, the PBE rate for incoming kindergarteners is now 2.3%. Marin has the highest rate of health sanity, of PBE, of 7.2%. So, Marin parents are way ahead of the curve, seeing the limitations and the dangers of serial vaccination. Here, a growing number of parents are open enough to see past the medical party line, and willing to buck authority in order to protect the health of their children. It is the children who get vaccinated who are truly at risk.

Vaccination, especially serial vaccination (up to 71 vaccinations before kindergarten), causes a state of chronic inflammation, often in the brain where it is referred to as encephalitis (often low-level.) While some may still assume that vaccination is scientific, safe and effective, we have seen the health of children devastated in the last two generations. Autism, various learning disabilities, Type I diabetes, juvenile arthritis, asthma… once rare, have become commonplace. The ONLY thing that has changed in those two generations is that the number of vaccinations has increased several-fold. Besides questionable biological material, vaccines contains a witch’s brew of known toxic substances… aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, latex, phenoxyethanol (anti-freeze), glutaraldehyde… Many of these substances are directly neurotoxic, so why is it so hard to figure out the autism connection? What about sub-clinical physical and mental losses? You still think that vaccination is scientific? What can possibly be scientific, or logical, or even reasonable, about poisoning children to get them healthy?

We all have immune systems, which receive control and coordination from the nervous system. Chiropractors appreciate that health only comes from the inside-out. Correct interference to the control and coordination of the body by the nervous system, and the body becomes healthier. This is different, and far superior to fighting, or even preventing disease. The fact that more parents in Marin are saying “no” to Big Brother in a White Coat,” rejecting serial vaccination, is a cause for joy. Some even have sense enough to bring their kids in for regular wellness chiropractic care. Maybe Dr. Eberhart-Phillips would like to regulate that, too.

A long time ago, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “If people let government decide what foods to eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”

Don Harte, D.C.

Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor

Chiropractic Pretenders according to Corte Madera Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:05:00 +0000

Pretenders? No, I'm not talking about the allopathic (medically-oriented) chiropractors who chase simple back pain relief instead of saving lives through the correction of Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC). Not their turn today.

I am speaking about other fields that pretend to offer what Chiropractic offers, presumably cheaper. Massage? Relaxing and nice, but it corrects nothing. Yoga? Good stuff. It has been practiced for a very long time. Yes, it is good for you, but it has nothing to do with the correction of VSC.

Then, there's the physical therapist's, who seek to stabilize a subluxated joint. Why would you want a wrong thing stabilized? Medically accepted? Insurance reimburseable? Sure, but doesn't that tell the story? It has nothing to do with Chiropractic.

Then, there's the Pilates fanatics and some personal trainer fanatics. Do they do good stuff for people? Undoubtedly. But they, like Rolfing, come from the conception that muscles and fascia are responsible for holding up the body. (PT's get into this as well.) Muscles are end-organs, like the heart or the kidneys. They do what they're told... no more, no less. If a muscle or a joint is getting an altered nerve supply due to VSC, that VSC MUST be corrected by a chiropractic adjustment. That muscle or joint will never operate properly until that happens.

PLUS, all of these well-meaning but confused folks, focused on muscles, and, for the most part, pain, have totally forgotten about the bulk of nervous system function, which is the control and coordination of every cell, tissue, organ and system in the body. Oops!

Only Chiropractic corrects THE #1 health risk factor... Vertebral Subluxation Complex.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Personality Change, Mental Illness and Chiropractic, by Dr Harte, Corte Madera

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:43:00 +0000

I love seeing people getting well and staying well under chiropractic care. (This is real... straight chiropractic care, as opposed to the neck and back pain third-rate physical medicine model.)

I truly love seeing personality changes, big and small, as we correct interference to the nervous system, Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC). Small? Well, I'm not really talking mental illness here. Some people just never really smile. They're chronically cranky. Others are would tight as a drum. Sometimes I have to tell them that rigor mortis is only allowed after you're dead. Anyway, it still amazes me how these folks loosen up, smile, relax and seem to finally enjoy life. Even those in extreme stress situations begin to handle that stress better, less destructively. This is so nice to see!

Then there are the people come in with real mental disorders, most on serious psychotropic drugs... anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medications, anti-psychotics, and sometimes anti-convulsants. Many have been able to throw their drugs away.

Way back in the 20's, 30's and 40's, there were chiropractic mental hospitals. People came out... functional... in 63% of the cases, vs. 5% out of the medical facilities.

Are you wondering how this works? Well, the mind is in the brain. The brain is contiguous with the cord and the nerves. Any stress from subluxation anywhere in the spine can effect the brain. (The most critical areas are the upper cervical region, the top two vertebrae, and the opposite end, the coccyx, or tailbone. Most chiropractors do not analyze and adjust the coccyx.) So, you get adjusted, removing stress from the nervous system. Doesn't it make perfect sense that people under chiropractic care often see dramatic changes in this realm? And the only side effect is better physical health!

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Goldilocks as Physiologist, Recognized by Corte Madera Chiropractor Dr Harte

noreply@blogger.com (Dr Harte - Liberator of Innate) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:57:00 +0000

"Goldilocks understood it. Not too much, not too little, but just right." - Dean Black, Ph.D.

Every parent has read "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" to their kids. Those who aren't parents, reach back into your memory as a young child.

You'll remember that the first bowl of porridge was too hot. The next one was too cold. The next one was just right. When Goldilocks thought it was time to have a nap, the first bed was too hard, the second was too soft, and the third was just right.

Physiology... the study of the body's functions. People tend to think of problems... disease... in terms to lack... too little. Well, sometimes that's true. A low functioning thyroid will leave you weak, slow and prone to gaining weight. But, then, a high functioning thyroid will cause you to be anxious, unable to sleep, to think, etc. Either hypo (too low) or hyper (too high) functioning is a pathological state. Who knows what is the right level for your thyroid... your doctor, the lab?

What about blood sugar? Too low is a problem. So is too high. The same is true of blood pressure, or just about any bodily function that you could name. So what you need, for the many, many functions of your body, is "just right." Now "just right' is different from person to person. "Just right" is even different for you, from day to day, and sometimes from moment to moment.

So... who knows what is "just right?" The Doctor, the specialist, the lab? No. They think they know. They do not, they cannot know, for the reasons given above. Your Innate Intelligence knows. It is charged with working the body, powering the body, coordinating the body, in a "just right" fashion. If you have Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC), the full expression of your Innate Intelligence will be interfered with, so that you may have functions that are "too hot" or "too cold."

The medical approach? Every drug hyper's the hypo and hypo's the hyper. Blood pressure too high? There are drugs to force it down to "lab normals." Too low? There are drugs for that, too. Thyroid too low? They give you fake thyroid hormones to bring your levels up to "lab normal." Too high? They'll cut your thyroid out.

The chiropractic approach? I adjust to correct VSC, allowing normal function... not too much, not too little, but just right.

Which approach is safer? Which makes more sense?

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate