Dr. MaryAnn`s Newletter – Fall is Around the Corner

Weston A Price Chapter Meeting and POTLUCK – “Wise Traditions and Healthy Eating”. Are you interested in learning more about how to prepare organ meats?- it might not sound very appetizing, but they are the MOST nutrient-rich parts of the animal. Friday, September 30 at 5 PM Location TBD

Insight THERMOGRAPHY – October is Breast HEALTH month. We will offer BREAST screenings (or other body parts) in our office on Monday, October 3th from 10-1pm . Please call us if interested in signing up. Fee. 410 628-9355

“Stress-Free Healthy HOLIDAYs” Seminar – Wednesday, October 12 at 6:30pm in office. Please join us to learn how mental health can affect your happiness, longevity and upcoming holidays. Recipes and tools to support your mental health.

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jefferson
It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it. Ethics of the Fathers (Pirke Avot)

In This Issue…
What’s so good about summer and chiropractic? Stop taking (ISOLATED) Vitamins! What’s so good about swimming? Can chiropractic help infants and babies? Why was this paper retraced? And yup, our great humor section. Check it out!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
• What do chiropractic and the summer have in common?
• STOP taking VITAMINS!
• Your Curves
• Do Infants Benefit from Chiropractic Care?
• Questions and Answers
• … Just the Essentials
• Traditional Eating
• Words of Wisdom
• Researching Chiropractic
• Humor
• References

What do chiropractic and the summer have in common?
Both are good for you.

Go to the beach, the park, or your backyard for exercise and lots of sun (no sunscreen please, just don’t burn). In the summer your body gets enough vitamin D and other sunshine vitamins/benefits to last you all winter. Remember, your body can store vitamin D, unlike most other vitamins.

But there’s more. Go out for walks and hikes with friends and loved ones; go swimming and have parties. Having friends and relatives over is very healthy – loneliness kills. So don’t think you aren’t doing something wonderful when you hang out and socialize. Remember, backyard parties are good for you too as well as your chiropractor (so don’t forget to invite us).

STOP taking VITAMINS!
Synthetic (made in a lab) and isolated vitamins – not in a complex or the way nature intended in a whole foods, create nutritional deficiencies. Speaking of “isolated’, some of the worst “health” foods you can take are protein bars and powders made from isolated soy and whey protein. Rice and pea proteins are not far behind. Why? Because they are produced at high temperatures and therefore destroy the inherent enzymes in the food. Fortified cereals are just as bad and additionally they have fragmented IRON added in which your body cannot assimilate. Calcium (carbonate) is another damaging product many women think they need to take to prevent osteoporosis. Do not take calcium – it contributes to damage in arteries and kidney stones. I do, however, recommend the bioavailable form – CALCIUM LACTATE with the addition of essential fatty acid in CATAPLEX F as a natural sunscreen from Standard Process. That’s all I use.

If you are interested in adding nutrients to your deficient SAD – Standard American Diet- I recommend Magnesium in all the available forms found in Easy-Mag (Standard Process).

If you take vitamin D3, you should have the active as well as the storage form of this hormone checked in your next lab requisition- please make sure you are adding vitamin A as well. Most people are not aware they work together. Where do you get vitamin A? Liver, egg yolks, grass-fed butter and cod liver oil. If you need more information on how much, when and whether you need to supplement your diet, please reach out to me.

Your Curves
Your spine (also called your spinal column or “backbone”) is made up of 24 movable vertebrae (spinal bones). On the bottom is a triangular bone made called the sacrum and underneath that is your tailbone or coccyx.

Your spine should be straight from the front, and from the side it should have natural curves.

You have three main curves – your neck or cervical curve, your mid back or thoracic curve and your lower back or lumbar curve.

Why do you need curves? Curves give your spine strength. A straight spine is much weaker than a curved spine.

What makes up the curves? Between your vertebra are discs that give your spine much of its curve and also act as shock absorbers so every step you take doesn’t shake you up.

Are your curves not curvy enough (straight) too curvy or just right? There are a number of ways to tell. One is with a posture analysis using the doctor’s hands, using a photographic analysis or an x-ray analysis. Want to know more? Ask us.

Do Infants Benefit from Chiropractic Care?

Chiropractic for infants? They have low back pain? Of course not! Infants need chiropractic care to ensure that the stress of gestation, labor and delivery has not damaged their spines and delicate structure.

Infants can be damaged by falls – statistics tell us that nearly half of all babies have had a fall from a height (off the changing table, off the bed, down the stairs etc.).

Chiropractic care helps ensure a healthy baby with better resistance to disease, a better ability to discharge toxins, a better ability to absorb nutrients and overall better body function.

Also, correcting subluxations may help a baby who is ill return to health more quickly and more comfortably.

There are many case histories of chiropractic helping children with all kinds of conditions – asthma, colic, constipation, difficulty breastfeeding, ear infections, autism spectrum disorder, vision and hearing disorders, neurological conditions- no matter what conditions babies may have, chiropractic care can help them grow into healthy, happy children. (1,2)

Questions and Answers

Q. Do chiropractors have MD degrees?

A. Chiropractors have DC degrees, conferred by a chiropractic college. A major difference between chiropractic and medicinal education is that while MDs are studying drugs, vaccination and surgery, chiropractors are study subluxation analysis and correction.

… Just the Essentials

Back to School support

Every year approaching a new school year for parents brings a sense of stress. The hustle and bustle of back-to-school shopping, schedule shifts and all things that come with a new school year can make this time of year challenging. Did you know that essential oils can make stressful and chaotic times easier to cope with?

Here are three ways essential oils can make this transition smoother for both parents and students!