Study Exercise and Weight Loss Can Reduce Blood Pressure
A program of regular exercise and weight loss is an effective, drug-free treatment for elevated blood pressure in mildly to moderately obese individuals, according to a study in the August 18 issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DDT Revisited. Part 2
Benefits of DDT
In spite of its 1972 ban, DDT was known to be very beneficial well before that time.
Nor was DDT shown to be a human carcinogen, certainly at environmental doses, as stated by A.J. Lehman, M.D., director of pharmacology at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in 1965.
DDT Revisited. Part 1
Twenty-nine years after the Environmental Protection Agency’s 1972 ban of the pesticide DDT, the case against DDT is finally coming unraveled. There was extensive scientific literature available at the time, which demonstrated DDT’s overwhelming benefits. In short, the ban was not supported by the scientific information available at that time. Read more…
Mystical Chiropractic. Part 7
Crescione’s primitive tests contrast acutely with the precise, high-tech evaluative procedures familiar to certified athletic trainers, exercise physiologists and registered physical therapists. Yet he stated that his procedure was “more complicated” than that of many chiropractors because he was “more thorough.” Read more…
Mystical Chiropractic. Part 6
In a booklet titled “Suggestive Therapy Applied: The Chiropractic Approach to the Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorders” (1977), Thurman Fleet wrote:
If the Doctor holds in his mind a picture of what he wants that [patient's] body to do and be, he will then give the instructions to the Innate of that body as to what it is to do. Read more…
Mystical Chiropractic. Part 5
Baby B.E.S.T. is an adaptation of B.E.S.T. to infants. In “Baby B.E.S.T.,” Morter states that the main objective of this variant is “the removal of segmentation imbalances to restore symmetry to the child.” This allegedly “allows for an updating of the neurological responses to and from the brain. Read more…
Mystical Chiropractic. Part 4
Brown saw chiropractor Harlow Wells in response to an ad for a free spinal exam. During his second visit to Wells, he lay on his back on a table and held up his arm at the chiropractor’s request. Brown described this visit in his report:
According to the procedure, Wells would try to pull down my arm. Read more…
Mystical Chiropractic. Part 3
The Unbearable Lightness of “Innate”
In “The Chiropractic Story” (1968), Marcus Bach, Ph.D., an acquaintance of Palmer’s son B.J., defined “Innate” as “the focus of divine mind expressed through mortal mind, challenging the latter to recognize its essence as divine.” He posited two forms of Innate: “personalized” and “corporate” (collective). Bach wrote:
Mystical Chiropractic. Part 2
‘Subluxations’
In scientific healthcare, subluxations are unambiguous occurrences. In medicine, the word means partial displacement of a bone in a joint. In dentistry, it usually refers to an abnormal loosening of teeth without displacement. However, the typical chiropractic subluxation is imaginary.
Mystical Chiropractic. Part 1
Although some styles of chiropractic are not supernaturalistic, chiropractors have been among the chief innovators and supporters of mystical healing since the inception of their trade. Three members of my immediate family patronized chiropractors — one of whom utilized cupping — and for many years I vaguely mistook chiropractic for a branch of medicine. Read more…