Active Life Chiropractic February Newsletter 2017
Our February special… will surely make you and a friend feel special. Bring in a new patient on your next visit, and get both adjustments combined for only $80! If you have a friend or loved one who has been thinking about trying chiropractic, there has never been a better time.
Entropy… what is it, and why does it matter? There are 2 universal laws of physics: gravity and entropy. Entropy is defined as “everything in the universe flows from order to disorder or randomness unless energy is applied, ie. a gradual decline into disorder will occur unless energy is applied to hinder this”. Entropy is a law of physics that is not debatable or refutable. Unless energy is applied to try to hold it back, entropy is our reality. When I apply it to chiropractic or acupuncture it means our body tends to go from fit to unfit unless energy is applied. Our meridian energy will likely go from balanced and thriving to disordered and troubled. When applied to muscular strength, as the saying goes, “Use it or lose it”. Another word for loss of muscle strength due to non-usage is atrophy. The muscles will weaken and usually get smaller with atrophy. Entropy is the reason I can’t believe we evolved from protoplasm hit by lightning. There is too much order and design in creation. That said there are also many signs that indicate entropy.
In the process of aging, we experience diminished capacity in the ability to do things that we long ago took for granted. For example, the simple act of sitting in a chair for a little while, and then getting up again. The body will maintain only enough strength and skill to do this to the extent that it is done every day. Say you get up and down from a chair thirty times a day. Almost inevitably, one day when you need to sit and then get up thirty-ONE times, the knees will buckle and not lift you up. The way to beat this is to do regular exercise that strengthens these muscles and this skill beyond that minimum point. To achieve this, you’ll need to do this at least two to three times a week. For the skill just mentioned, doing squats would seem to be an obvious choice.
Doing squats properly to maintain leg strength doesn’t have to be deep knee bends that could strain the knees. It is a great simple exercise for avoiding the atrophy of the leg muscles and your balance. To squat without hurting your knees, place feet a bit wider than shoulder width apart. Have your toes pointed straight ahead of you because you need to bend the knees over the toes. Put arms out in front as you bend your knees, keeping the weight on the back of the feet, mostly on the heels. This might feel like you are sticking your buttocks out behind you, but that is better for your knees. When you first try squats, you might want a chair behind you to catch you in case you do go too low. Go as low as you can without hurting your knees. Hold it for a couple of seconds and then stand up. Stand up tall. Reach up with your arms and look up if you can. That will help your postural muscles. To start, just do five squats and then see how you feel the next day. If you are sore, stick with 5 for a week. If you are not sore, try 10 squats and then wait until the next day. A rule of thumb when getting into a new athletic activity is to not increase the weight or the repetitions more than 10% a week.
Good habits are very prone to entropy. The gym is usually brimming with people in January, many of whom have made a resolution to exercise regularly. But by February, the crowds are greatly diminished. One must make a conscious effort to apply energy in order to fight entropy. Here’s an interesting study to help motivate exercise. One long term study followed two thousand and fourteen men for twenty-two years to determine if regular exercise could increase lifespan. The details about the selection of these men for age or category are unknown. Some did daily exercise, while others did some exercise a few days a week. The control group did not exercise at all. At the end of the study, one hundred thirty-one men had died. Of those, 73.6% that died were from the control group, while 26.4% had done the exercise but died anyway. I know, some say, “Eat healthy, exercise, and die anyway”. Technically, yes, but mild exercise helps us feel so much better while we are alive. Be sure to exercise enough to increase the breathing rate for thirty minutes. Exercise has many benefits, including lowering glucose, decreasing the risk of heart disease, ulcers, depression, stroke, cancer, infections and diabetes. It also helps you sleep better. One idea for regular exercise that is free for the doing is to take a thirty minute walk at a pace that slightly increases your breathing rate. Then, every three minutes, go really fast and hard for only thirty seconds. Slow down for three minutes, and repeat this pattern for a full thirty minutes. If you can get a friend to join you, that will help you beat entropy even more.
The scientific method… became almost an irrefutable gold standard during the 1960’s. You wouldn’t argue with someone if they could say, “It’s been proven scientifically”. That should always have meant that the same results would be found when the experiment was repeated multiple times. It also could be proven mathematically, in the case of physics. Someone makes a theory that can be tested with experiments that can be repeated and the numerical evaluation gave consistent and almost identical results. That is the closest thing we have to a theory being proven by science. The unfortunate truth is this scientific method also has succumbed to a form of entropy. Much of “science” in all fields has been swallowed up by politics via unabated, growing, and even out-in-the-open corruption and fraud.
In August of 2015 we discovered most of the so-called “gold standard” of medical scientific studies regarding psychological disorders, health problems, and medical treatments were doctored, corrupted, fudged, slanted and judged incompetent. The
evidence of this came when certain experiments were repeated and the results were not able to be duplicated. This explains why the medical advice of twenty years ago is now being refuted. For example, we were told to avoid eating fats and eggs or it would raise our cholesterol. Now popular medical science is saying “Oops! That’s not true”.
The goal of being “FDA approved” seems to have changed. The goal is no longer to keep people safe from bad food or drugs but to gain peer-reviewed status for something that gives monetary gain or power. Vaccines that are forced upon children even though they may be harmful for some are one example. California has passed a law that makes vaccinations mandatory and no exceptions are allowed. In every field of science there are findings that were bought. Pharmaceuticals have virtually unlimited funds and are the leaders in the “bought-and-doctored-pseudo-scientific-world”. That is one of the reasons that when there is a choice between a drug that has been around a few decades and a drug that is “new and improved”, I warn my patients to ask their doctor for the older drug. I recently learned of a place to go that uncovers the lies: www.thennt.com and www.cochrane collaboration.org. For now, these two websites have not been put out of business or bought off.
There when you need them... proceeds from this month’s charity fundraiser will benefit Teller County Search and Rescue. Mark the date on your calendar for Saturday, February 25th, from 9am until 1pm. Stop by for an adjustment or a meridian balancing (acu-stim) treatment in exchange for a donation in the amount of your choice.
Entropy… what is it, and why does it matter? There are 2 universal laws of physics: gravity and entropy. Entropy is defined as “everything in the universe flows from order to disorder or randomness unless energy is applied, ie. a gradual decline into disorder will occur unless energy is applied to hinder this”. Entropy is a law of physics that is not debatable or refutable. Unless energy is applied to try to hold it back, entropy is our reality. When I apply it to chiropractic or acupuncture it means our body tends to go from fit to unfit unless energy is applied. Our meridian energy will likely go from balanced and thriving to disordered and troubled. When applied to muscular strength, as the saying goes, “Use it or lose it”. Another word for loss of muscle strength due to non-usage is atrophy. The muscles will weaken and usually get smaller with atrophy. Entropy is the reason I can’t believe we evolved from protoplasm hit by lightning. There is too much order and design in creation. That said there are also many signs that indicate entropy.
In the process of aging, we experience diminished capacity in the ability to do things that we long ago took for granted. For example, the simple act of sitting in a chair for a little while, and then getting up again. The body will maintain only enough strength and skill to do this to the extent that it is done every day. Say you get up and down from a chair thirty times a day. Almost inevitably, one day when you need to sit and then get up thirty-ONE times, the knees will buckle and not lift you up. The way to beat this is to do regular exercise that strengthens these muscles and this skill beyond that minimum point. To achieve this, you’ll need to do this at least two to three times a week. For the skill just mentioned, doing squats would seem to be an obvious choice.
Doing squats properly to maintain leg strength doesn’t have to be deep knee bends that could strain the knees. It is a great simple exercise for avoiding the atrophy of the leg muscles and your balance. To squat without hurting your knees, place feet a bit wider than shoulder width apart. Have your toes pointed straight ahead of you because you need to bend the knees over the toes. Put arms out in front as you bend your knees, keeping the weight on the back of the feet, mostly on the heels. This might feel like you are sticking your buttocks out behind you, but that is better for your knees. When you first try squats, you might want a chair behind you to catch you in case you do go too low. Go as low as you can without hurting your knees. Hold it for a couple of seconds and then stand up. Stand up tall. Reach up with your arms and look up if you can. That will help your postural muscles. To start, just do five squats and then see how you feel the next day. If you are sore, stick with 5 for a week. If you are not sore, try 10 squats and then wait until the next day. A rule of thumb when getting into a new athletic activity is to not increase the weight or the repetitions more than 10% a week.
Good habits are very prone to entropy. The gym is usually brimming with people in January, many of whom have made a resolution to exercise regularly. But by February, the crowds are greatly diminished. One must make a conscious effort to apply energy in order to fight entropy. Here’s an interesting study to help motivate exercise. One long term study followed two thousand and fourteen men for twenty-two years to determine if regular exercise could increase lifespan. The details about the selection of these men for age or category are unknown. Some did daily exercise, while others did some exercise a few days a week. The control group did not exercise at all. At the end of the study, one hundred thirty-one men had died. Of those, 73.6% that died were from the control group, while 26.4% had done the exercise but died anyway. I know, some say, “Eat healthy, exercise, and die anyway”. Technically, yes, but mild exercise helps us feel so much better while we are alive. Be sure to exercise enough to increase the breathing rate for thirty minutes. Exercise has many benefits, including lowering glucose, decreasing the risk of heart disease, ulcers, depression, stroke, cancer, infections and diabetes. It also helps you sleep better. One idea for regular exercise that is free for the doing is to take a thirty minute walk at a pace that slightly increases your breathing rate. Then, every three minutes, go really fast and hard for only thirty seconds. Slow down for three minutes, and repeat this pattern for a full thirty minutes. If you can get a friend to join you, that will help you beat entropy even more.
The scientific method… became almost an irrefutable gold standard during the 1960’s. You wouldn’t argue with someone if they could say, “It’s been proven scientifically”. That should always have meant that the same results would be found when the experiment was repeated multiple times. It also could be proven mathematically, in the case of physics. Someone makes a theory that can be tested with experiments that can be repeated and the numerical evaluation gave consistent and almost identical results. That is the closest thing we have to a theory being proven by science. The unfortunate truth is this scientific method also has succumbed to a form of entropy. Much of “science” in all fields has been swallowed up by politics via unabated, growing, and even out-in-the-open corruption and fraud.
In August of 2015 we discovered most of the so-called “gold standard” of medical scientific studies regarding psychological disorders, health problems, and medical treatments were doctored, corrupted, fudged, slanted and judged incompetent. The
evidence of this came when certain experiments were repeated and the results were not able to be duplicated. This explains why the medical advice of twenty years ago is now being refuted. For example, we were told to avoid eating fats and eggs or it would raise our cholesterol. Now popular medical science is saying “Oops! That’s not true”.
The goal of being “FDA approved” seems to have changed. The goal is no longer to keep people safe from bad food or drugs but to gain peer-reviewed status for something that gives monetary gain or power. Vaccines that are forced upon children even though they may be harmful for some are one example. California has passed a law that makes vaccinations mandatory and no exceptions are allowed. In every field of science there are findings that were bought. Pharmaceuticals have virtually unlimited funds and are the leaders in the “bought-and-doctored-pseudo-scientific-world”. That is one of the reasons that when there is a choice between a drug that has been around a few decades and a drug that is “new and improved”, I warn my patients to ask their doctor for the older drug. I recently learned of a place to go that uncovers the lies: www.thennt.com and www.cochrane collaboration.org. For now, these two websites have not been put out of business or bought off.
There when you need them... proceeds from this month’s charity fundraiser will benefit Teller County Search and Rescue. Mark the date on your calendar for Saturday, February 25th, from 9am until 1pm. Stop by for an adjustment or a meridian balancing (acu-stim) treatment in exchange for a donation in the amount of your choice.
