It's So Noisy In Here... I Can't Hear Myself Heal by Dr. Arlo Gordin

You've been in a place so loud that you realize you can't hear yourself think.  Or you can look on TV and notice between the BS ads (especially the ones selling you drugs with Unthinkable Side-Effects, followed by the ones for lawyers for you to get back your damages from suffering Unthinkable Side-Effects from drugs you took) and you realize that your head is supposed to be filled with that noise and get you to slavishly BUY those questionable products and services.  Yes, it seems that your world can get so noisy it is a challenge to think.  But think we must; it is the intelligent person's mandate.

I have been taking care of my patients' nerve systems for many years now, and have come to realize that my thinking about your nerve system, your subluxations (nerve system "short circuits", See my article on Subluxation & Nerve Malfunction) has been updated.

Here's the way I fix your nerve system now, and what I observe about it.  Every short circuit in your body is a source of nerve system "noise".  The bigger ones (such as a neck or low-back, a bad knee problem, a carpal tunnel wrist/hand pain) will generate a lot of nerve system static or noise.  The smaller ones, like a muscle injury, a small sprain or a minor annoyance problem generates less "noise" in your nerve system.  The nerve system acts a lot like a complex computer system with a screen.  If there is too much interference, static, or noise in signaling the monitor will display an image that isn't really clear...is that image a woman?  is it a horse?  or is that a boat?  Can't really make out what it is...

Similarly your nerve system is in the business of carrying signals and getting clear communication back and forth to run the show of your health.  Of the trillion cells in your body, 1 out of every 15 is a nerve cell.  That system of nerves is trying to get a clear "image" of all its transmission.  But often it just can't.  It seems apparent to me now after the many patients that I've successfully treated, that the amount of nerve noise, all of it added together from problems (subluxations) greater and smaller, dictates the quality of the imaging your nerve system can generate.  So now this understanding helps you and me to get the product we are seeking: Health.

For example, I have many patients who come to me with their health displaying some sort of problem (symptom).  Maybe it's a single problem, like a bad painful knee that won't let you move well.  More often it becomes a list of problems including a couple off the top of their heads, but after filling out a more comprehensive history form questioning of many types of symptoms, it turns out they've listed 12 or 16 complaints (to their surprise!)  When I examine them it is SELDOM that only one problem point is found, there are often many.  Some leg muscles won't give any strength, and arm and hand muscles, and neck muscles.  Most patients didn't know they had these weak muscle areas displaying subluxations and nerve short circuits.  The weakness may not be directly related (it seems to them) to the problem areas they complain of as painful or malfunctioning, or the symptoms of their organs that seem to be working poorly.

But it turns out it is the SUM of all of those short circuited areas that makes up the accumulation of the nerve noise that keeps your system from receiving crisp clear images and delivering neat and accurate commands.  The noise becomes just too great.  It becomes the defined level of nerve system stress that your control system operates with, and the level of distortion that your nerve system operates with and the burden of miscommunication that scrambles your health balance and wrecks or diminishes your senses of well-being.

That's why in the Ligament Stretch Syndrome patient (See my write-ups on Adrenals and on Ligament Stretch Syndrome) my Chiropractic goal as we kick-start their adrenals up from comatose to get up to terribly poor function, is to adjust the subluxated areas to QUIET DOWN the levels of nerve noise.  That is one essential part of getting the adrenals to Un-Stress to succeed in waking them up.  Get the nerve noise level DOWN.  Now the body can hear itself think!  And begin properly the process of controlling healing.

Most of the time (and after Ligament Stretch Syndrome has been "graduated" by those who had it) the Chiropractic adjustments' purpose is to correct and heal the damaged areas that are sourcing the noisiness into the system.  As they are adjusted, and as the ligaments that hold them heal, the noise level continues to be less and less.  As the system "quiets down", the body gets clear signaling.  The image on the screen, if you will, can be actually seen!  The signals coming from an area about its status arrive intact.  The signals carrying orders out on the functional control of that area, or, for instance, the activation of a strong muscle to do its job and contract, now arrive with full force and accuracy, and the area responds properly.  When all has recovered and healed, then the noise levels should be QUIET.  Does that mean that new problems and the wear and tear of living and of operating your body actively will not result in new subluxations, and from them increase the noise and static in your nerve system?  No, unfortunately life tends to accumulate such things.  The reason Maintenance Chiropractic has been shown to reduce illness, extend life, reduce the occurrence of severe (and deadly) ill health events is because it CATCHES these things when they are new and smallest, eliminating them and keeping the nerve system's noise DOWN.

The beauty of Advanced Applied Kinesiology and the comprehensive checking technique I have developed is that subluxations and Nerve Static sources are tested throughout the body.  Spine: Neck, Mid, Lower Back, Pelvis and Hip system.  Head, Neck, Jaw, Shoulders, Arm and Hands. Hip multi functions, Leg Front and Hamstrings, Knee, Ankle, Foot and Toes.  Torso, Glands, Organs, Digestion and Elimination.  All that and more tested on you and EVERY one of my new patients!  That means all the major potential short circuits and sources of Nerve System Noise checked for you.  And corrected.  Result: You get Quieter Nerve, Spinal Cord and Brain function.  Result: Control of your body goes IN.  Result: our weekly fare of new "miracle" health restoration cases.  (Today I took in a new patient who had seen 26 doctors in 8 years, and never had his symptoms leave for a day!  I found all the sources of his noisy nerve system, and I can virtually guarantee that in short order his unrelenting pain, fatigue and fogginess will be GONE as the noise is eliminated, and his glands restored to working again.)

Can you picture the effect when it is so Quiet inside you can hear yourself Heal?

I'VE SEEN ENOUGH REAR-ENDERS! MY HONK TO THE REAR GAMBIT by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Over the years I've seen some very responsible, careful drivers come in to my office with car accident-caused injuries they apparently couldn't avoid . . .

But I began to ponder, is there a way they could have avoided that accident that we weren't ever taught in drivers' education?

It would seem that when somebody slams into our car from the rear, that's out of our control.  After seeing hundreds of people in this situation, I devoted serious thought into the prevention of rear-end collisions.  From this came the idea for a driving technique I've used repeatedly to protect myself from accidents.  I call it "Honk To the Rear". 

This driving technique can help you avoid, or lessen the impact of what could be a devastating rear-end collision.  You know you can take responsibility in your driving for what's in front of you and what's to the side of you.  This technique allows you to take some responsibility for what's going on in the cars behind you!

It works like this.  When you find yourself having to stop or slow in traffic, 1) where it would not ordinarily be expected, like a freeway or a fast thoroughfare, 2) in the middle of an intersection where you are expected to drive right  through, 3) when heading downhill with people behind you indicating poor braking ability or inattention 4) while driving in poor weather conditions causing vision or braking impairment, employ the following guidelines:

The moment you find it necessary to apply your brakes suddenly, instantly shoot your eyes to your rear view mirror.  If you cannot clearly see the eyes of the driver behind you indicating that he has seen your red lights and has applied his brakes, instantly begin to honk your horn.  Honk.  Honk.  Honk.  The unconscious response of the person behind you is to apply the brakes when that honking is heard.  "Why is he honking?  Something must be wrong," is the instinctive message.  Also immediately turn on your emergency flashers too.  You're trying to get them to hear and see something is going on and go into alert-driver mode (as opposed to retarded texter-mode for example).

Of course, the person in front of you thinks you're insane for honking.  "Why are you honking?  Can't you see the lady in the crosswalk in front of me?"  The lady in the crosswalk also thinks you're crazy.  "Don't you know I have the right-of-way?"  But of course, you're not honking to the front, not honking to her; you're honking to the rear.

A person unexpectedly steps into the crosswalk, or chooses to walk against the "DON'T WALK" signal. Traffic behind you is moving at 45 MPH.  You honk for the people behind you, so they won't run into you.  The cars behind you brake and no collisions occur.  It's unfortunate that the lady in the crosswalk is startled, but better for everyone that a collision hurting people (and property) has been avoided.  

Hitting the brakes that extra second earlier, after being alerted by the honking, can make the difference, especially in Los Angeles traffic where we often don't get that cushion of space around us which they told us in Driver's Ed would protect us from rear-end collisions.  The driver who is looking at someone strolling down the street, the driver texting, the one who is rummaging around in her purse, the person who is just spacing out, the driver messing with the telephone or nav system, or even listening to loud music, hears your Honk, Honk, Honk, crunches the brakes and doesn't hit you.  The honking could also signal the driver barreling along three cars behind you and prevent a four-car freeway pile-up. I employ this technique often and I know it has protected me on many occasions.

That additional method of warning by turning on your emergency flashers gives an additional signal that something ahead is not speeding along; it's not business as usual.

A third way is, when a vehicle ahead of you has slowed in your lane to make a left turn, to turn on your left turn signal.  Traffic behind you cannot see the signal from the car ahead, but seeing yours gives them an additional visual cue that traffic isn’t barreling through, but instead indicates you're stopping to turn.           

Rear-end collisions are well worth avoiding.  The damage they can cause to your spine is a hassle to repair and can sometimes leave permanent weakening of the ligament tissues that are torn.  The aggravation of having to fix yourself, and your car, are all things we can do without in our busy lives.  We have plenty of more important things to do.

I hope this driving tip saves you from needless whiplash, pain, and wasted energy in dealing with body shops and insurance adjusters. So practice it a bit, until the technique becomes instant and intuitive.  Remember - in sudden situations - you can Honk to the Rear.

Getting Old? by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Every day in my practice there’s some recital of the lament, “I’m just getting old.”  Although aging seems as inevitable as the advance of time, the effects of it are surprisingly able to be more under your control than conventional “wisdom” dictates.  I’d like to relate some telling examples to you.

A patient M. G. comes in complaining (among other problems) that his right knee always hurts if he walks, exercises or bends it much.  His “regular” doctor said he was just getting old.  I asked him if the left knee, which doesn’t bother him, was any younger than the bad right one?!?  The “bad” knee needed the hinge joint adjusted so it was working straight, and the cartilage (medial meniscus: the cartilage pad inside the knee joint) adjusted back into position.  Now the right knee doesn’t bother him anymore.  Did it get younger?  By the clock and calendar it was the same age, just as old.  But it wasn't acting old anymore thanks to the application of our approach.

My patient K. H. 51 years old tells me she’s exhausted, frequently depressed, overweight and menopausal.  She knows she’s just getting old.  We put her on a simple (and fun) nutritional program and adjusted her.  No more depression, lots of energy, 30 lbs. lighter, and no longer in menopause.  Are her glands younger?

Clock and calendar say no, her body and experience tell her yes.

A patient tells me her back is worsening, it can’t be fixed, she’s tried lots of therapy and treatment, and nothing lasts.  She was told her spine is degenerating; she’s just getting old.  We found her exhausted adrenal glands, did the special 1-week New “Adrenal Wake-Up-Call” Nutritional Treatment and now her back is pain-free and staying that way.  Is her spine younger?  And why is my spine, which is older than hers not degenerated?  Is there something more going on that determines how old you are and feel than just the passage of time?

My patient explains that his stomach isn’t working, he has an ulcer, can barely enjoy eating anymore, has no energy, pain all over.  He’s really getting old!  Adjustment to the spine nerves and stomach (Hiatal Hernia:  where the stomach traps part of itself in the diaphragm breathing muscle) and nutrition to heal the ulcer.  No pain, eating perfectly, energy up, the long list of horrible complaints GONE!  Is his stomach younger now?  Not by measurement of time, but by experience it is.  This is what people are seeking when they want "Anti-Aging Medicine" (Note I am also board certified by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine).

The answer is YES YES YES.  In each case the aging that was taking place in the organs, joints and tissues was REVERSED.  The tissue was made young and workable again by the body itself.  It just needed some very accurate help to be able to do it.  Advanced Applied Kinesiology and competent Nutritional Care and my patient training on what you need to know are some of the key elements that head up my Anti-Aging philosophy, approach and success.

We know that scientifically our bodies constantly repair and replace themselves.  The cells are constantly rebuilding.  Scientists know that virtually every cell and organ we own is fully replaced in seven to ten years.  But will the replacement be an improvement or a sloppy slide into a worsened and unhealthy state?

The passage of time alone is not the single issue of health and getting old.  It is the passage of time OVER AN UNCORRECTED PROBLEM that causes that area to worsen, spiraling down, down, down and resulting in the degeneration of tissue, and sometimes worse.

Can you imagine the pleasure I derive with you when we together turn back the hands of time?  It’s indescribably satisfying!

THROW THAT COFFEE OUT – NO WAIT PUT IT BACK IN THAT CUP! by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Many of us were drilled to believe that coffee (and tea) and caffeine were health no-no's and should be avoided.

For quite some time now, I have re-evaluated coffee and tea and I feel that it may well be interesting to you to consider some research, data and viewpoints.

It has been observed that many of the longest lived people on planet Earth drink coffee or tea at intervals through the day.  That type of data generally makes me consider that the item being considered may, at the least, be unlikely to be a life-shortener.

For many years it has been known that coffee will stimulate the production of adrenal hormones and for this reason any conclusion I submit here would be to use moderate amounts of coffee or tea (as for example 3-4 times/day).  Not massive intake.  To overdose on too much of these seems to court adrenal and other hormonal ill effects.  And if you know of my successful health strategies with my patients, adrenal "wake-up" and rebuilding are a corner post of many health programs.  Adrenal burn-out is epidemic and the underlying key factor in many pain, blood sugar, headache, migraine, inflammatory, allergic, asthmatic, autoimmune errors which go by myriads of names and diagnoses.  (For more on this topic go to Dr Arlo Gordin on YouTube and watch my presentations of 1) Glandular Understanding and 2) Energy Blood Sugar and the Zone (adrenals covered in worthwhile detail there).

I am a board certified Anti-Aging physician through the Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. Our brain division is involved in many fascinating areas of brain understanding and preventing/reversing the unwanted effects of aging on our brains; certainly one area of anti-aging that all of us would hope to benefit from.

Loss of memory, slowing thought, brain "aging", Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s:  Some of our top researchers observe that in our brains (electrical organs as they are) as we age they drop in both electrical voltage and speed. The consideration that these electrical slowdowns eventually make the firing of brain synapses slower, and when electrically challenged to exceedingly low power and speed, impede the brain's most basic activity: to fire and to work.

Strategies to speed up and up-power the brain are one area of current anti-aging activity.

Simply speaking, coffee is found to speed up brain activity. Studies state that coffee reduces risk of memory loss and Alzheimer’s.  It is considered that coffee causes the quite valuable blood-brain barrier to remain more impervious to degrading and it’s use is linked to better mood and less depression. Coffee appears to reduce the creation of plaques in the brain, considered the diagnostic mark of Alzheimer’s Disease.¹ Coffee has been studied and seems to prevent or diminish risk of death — it has been studied to provide a 15% reduction in cardiovascular disease. Studies have demonstrated that coffee use reduces incidence of high blood sugar and diabetes (a devastating disease and the most expensive disease to pay for in America; also an epidemic worldwide).  This as well as, some studies show, reducing the incidence of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.²

Although you can read health and scientific opinions that coffee can either kill you or help you stay young alert and healthy, I've long made my own and current evaluation of the data and opinion.

My espresso maker gets hot several times daily and has for years.

References

1. “Coffee Combats Alzheimer’s Risk.” WorldHealth, 2015, www.worldhealth.net/news/coffee-combats-
alzheimers-risk/.

2. “New Health Benefits from Daily Coffee - Life Extension.” Life Extension The Science of a Healthier Life,
2014, www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2014/7/new-health-benefits-from-daily-coffee/page-01.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Some people are terribly exhausted.  They just can’t get their energy going.  Some were born that way, and never had much get up and go.  Some got that way at a certain point in life.  For some, a particular event, an illness, a highly stressful time, a divorce, or a death marked the start of never-ending exhaustion.  Some got tired gradually; exhaustion seemed to just creep up on them.

Regardless, when a person is just wiped out, life is very difficult.  There’s so much that needs to get done, and a horribly fatigued individual may find it very difficult, maybe impossible to keep up.  They can consult a doctor, and he gives their condition a name: “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.”  If a cause is found (but often none is) then a treatment for it could commence.  If the person tests positive for the “Epstein Barr Virus” (similar to mononucleosis, the “kissing disease”, that causes people to sometimes be exhausted “permanently”) then that person’s diagnosis changes to EBV (Epstein Barr Virus).

There’s a funny thing about doctors, and patients too.  They like to have a name for things.  “Oh, I have chronic fatigue syndrome.”  The diagnosis tells them nothing they didn’t know already: they know they’re fatigued.  But somehow the doctor and the patient feel more comfortable giving a name to something, even when it offers not one bit of help, no understanding of the cause of the problem, nor any workable approach to treat it, let alone cure it.

Fifty percent of all the named diseases are listed as “cause unknown”.  Of course if you and your doctor don’t know the cause, how could you hope to really fix the problem?

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is just such a “comfortiagnosis”.  If naming your problem, even by just rephrasing it, helps you feel a bit more comfortable, well there you go.  Doctors providing such a diagnosis most often offer silly or damaging treatments. They could decide to drug you with anti-depressants. (The TV ads would have us believe we’d all be better off on those!)  They could give you stimulants.  But all the drugs they can choose from are generally ineffective, non-curative, and all have side-effects that you would never wish to have.

We’ve treated chronic fatigue patients successfully again and again.  How?  By treating the real cause of the fatigue.  There are many things that must be checked to get to the bottom of this problem.  And there are more than a few possibilities.  I’ll mention a few of the most common here.

The individual with exhausted adrenal glands, and therefore tired hormones and up-and-down blood sugar leads the pack.  The man who first published his research on the adrenals, exhaustion, stress, blood-sugar (brain and body fuel) and more, won the Nobel Prize for it.  Yet most doctors completely blow it in recognizing or correcting adrenal problems.  Like so much in medicine, the answer MUST be drugs. YET NO ONE I’VE EVER MET HAS ADRENAL EXHAUSTION CAUSED BY A DRUG DEFICIENCY.

This subject is usually vital to the chronically fatigued, and I invite you to ask for a free copy of our video class on this subject.  There’s much for you to learn about it, and it takes more than a few minutes of discussion to do it justice.

Sometimes the person has already figured out that they have worn-out adrenal glands. They’ve already tried things, and they’ve already taken nutrition for their adrenals.  What more could they do?  They just haven’t done the exact right things needed to fix the problem and get the result.  A little knowledge, or almost the right thing, usually isn’t enough.  Then they often need to call on our experience, with over a quarter century of research and results in treating chronic fatigue, exhausted adrenals and related problems. 

A blockage of nerve energy will cause exhaustion.  It can rob the blood flow to the brain, causing numerous brain-related complaints: fatigue, or dizziness, or headaches, or many more.  Pinched nerves to the blood flow of the brain are very common.

The other day I met a great guy, owner of a pet shop.  He had been exhausted, dizzy and depressed for years.  His doctor had him on an arm-load of medications, but it didn’t improve him.  He wasn’t even sure any more why he was taking all that stuff.

I checked him out, and sure enough, he had pressure at the base of his brain, from a misaligned neck and skull.  He didn’t feel that.  He hadn’t a clue that problem was there.  He just had all the brain symptoms.  In one treatment (adjustment of those misaligned structures) he made a huge improvement.

Some need a nerve system overhaul.  They have pinched nerves from accidents, sports, stress or other causes.  Some haven’t given their brain and nerves the nourishment they’ve needed for years.

Other causes too could be yours.  Some have low-grade infections that have never been beaten.  A person can harbor a low-grade bacterial infection that keeps their energy system wasted.  Their weak immune system just can’t get the upper hand against the germs.  Sometimes the person has a chronic virus that won’t let them get their energy in gear.  An example of this is Epstein Barr Virus.

Some need a hormonal overhaul.  Other glands are worn out, and could be naturally repaired and rebuilt.  Thyroid, testosterone, female hormones, immune system glands are each possible culprits in chronic fatigue.

If you’re really tired of being tired, then consult someone who has experience in actually getting to the bottom of these problems and correcting them!

Adrenal Gland Problems: Still a Poorly Understood Secret by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Many of my patients have been told they have an Adrenal Gland Problem.  But many haven’t ever gotten the results they wish.  You may have taken (many!) adrenal nutritional supplements, but the problems that are caused, worsened or complicated by your adrenal malfunction or exhaustion still persist or even get worse!  Why?  Because adrenals respond to many things in life: what you eat, your emotions, pain and more.  Just taking some nutrients usually is not enough to get the job done.  It takes more, and most doctors don’t know or help enough to get that “more” achieved.  And since precision chiropractic is often so essential, many doctors aren’t equipped to do the job.

You often may need to repair your adrenal glands as a first priority in order to get healthy. You have two of these little guys, one on top of each kidney.  They put out a number of essential hormones for health, and they respond to, and can be damaged by, a number of life’s less desirable but often not easily avoidable occurrences. They also, like your other glands, tend to get less healthy and productive just with age.  Their hormone output drop with increasing years, and can plummet from shocks or stressors, including biochemical ones.

These adrenal hormones release into your bloodstream.  They include: A. The blood sugar hormone that keeps your energy up between meals. If it is low, fatigue, headaches and other symptoms of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) result. B. The anti-inflammatory/anti-pain hormone “cortisone” that keeps your body from pain, as well as from inflammatory and auto-immune illnesses.  These include illnesses whose names end in “itis” (inflammation of) such as colitis, arthritis, dermatitis and bronchitis.  C.  The salt balancing hormones that tell your kidneys to not lose all your essential mineral salts into your urine.  Reductions in these play a role in such things as abnormal swellings of the body, and heart and energy malfunctions, D.  Adrenaline which gives you bursts of energy in “stress” situations, and E. Estrogen for the post-menopausal woman that helps her stay more hormonally balanced.  The adrenals make the only source of estrogen (female hormone) in the body after menopause.

Because of the profound effects of these hormones, if they are out of balance, big problems are the result. Temporarily they may be pushed into high gear by stress or incorrect eating, which later eventually leads to their burnout.  Burnout of the adrenals underlies a great many health problems, and worsens symptoms in the areas of your body that you are already weakened from birth (genetics) or from other insults and causes.

Overeating carbohydrates (sweet or starchy foods including sugar, breads, cereals, etc) will cause an insulin reaction. Generally at the same time all the ill effects of over-secreting insulin occur, the adrenals will be burnt out on the rebound blood sugar crash that follows. Not balancing food properly, overeating carbs, especially ones that arrive fast as sugar in the blood, is one factor that wears out adrenals.  Because insulin reactions to meals badly chosen in type and quantity, are the leading causes of 1) overweight  2) placqued and clogged arteries 3) heart attack and stroke (these two are the leading causes of death), eating better may be one of the best things you could do for yourself and your adrenal glands.  Refer to eating "40-30-30", balancing protein, carbohydrate and oil intake in the right proportions when you eat and when you snack.

Fatigue is a frequent effect of worn-out adrenals.  Because their hormones regulate the fueling (blood sugar supply) of cells, and especially those of the brain, underfueling results in low energy, worn-out-ness. Depression is another effect that may occur to an individual with an underfuelled brain and nervous system.  Many other symptoms of a worn-out energy system and poorly functioning nerves also can result. The reason so many symptoms are possible with poorly regulated blood sugar is because it is the fuel for the brain and nerves, and they are involved in every pain and physical feeling you experience, as well as controlling and regulating EVERY body function.  Sleep problems are also often a result of burnt out adrenals.

Your adrenals are also known as your “Stress Glands”.  Mental and emotional stress, worry, anxiety over love, money, family, any of the usual (or unusual) sources, will eventually burn out the adrenals, and cripple their hormonal output. The man who figured this out (Hans Selye) was recognized by the Nobel committee. He also discovered that other types of stress besides emotional can burn them out. Physical or chemical stresses can also cause adrenal burnout.  Ongoing pain, nerve system stress and malfunction, stimulant drugs, overdosing on caffeine, nicotine, or alcohol are on that list.  Despite the fact that some of the highest accolades  in science were awarded for this understanding, and it was broadly written about, few medical physicians give much thought to, or have approaches for assisting adrenals to repair or function.  This comes as no surprise since most medical physicians are not trained or comfortable to practice nutrition or life-friendly direction.  They are trained more with a prescription pad in one hand, and a scalpel in the other.  As such they are happy to write scripts for pain-killers, anti-inflammatories, and even the hard-to-quit and side-effect ridden medication "cortisone" much more freely than well-informed sense would allow.

If you have a chronic inflammatory disorder, generally medicine or drugs are merely symptomatic treatment.  Colitis, laryngitis, vaginitis, (notice the “itis” endings) are usually medically incurable, but just forever treatable, but only to reduce the symptoms. Chronic pain, fibromyalgia, torn up joints and arthritis are common effects with adrenal components. Now it is finally made its way to common medical understanding that inflammation is a basic factor in arthritis, and also in heart attack and strokes.  The drug industry’s anti-inflammatory drugs do not treat causes, but only symptoms. Headaches and migraines similarly have important adrenal (and blood sugar) components. Asthma and allergies have vital adrenal underpinnings. If ongoing medication is your recommended course, with no real end in sight, you could think then about strengthening your adrenals and fixing whatever else is actually causing the problem, not just spray painting over the symptoms with medications.

When your adrenals are weak, the things that are harming them are generally winning, and those that could help them are losing.  If you want to turn that around, you must try to discard or minimize the harmers, and bring on and support the helpers.  Stress factors should be handled, chronic pain corrected, imbalanced eating repaired, to name a few possibilities.  We do know how to guide you in getting these handled.

One great helper that can be instituted is to take adrenal support NUTRIENTS.  Generally this can be done with supplements into which several adrenal support substances are combined.  The right supplements should be prescribed, and the correct dose as well.  Many adrenal supplements flood the market and the labels look great.  But the actual effects are often not successful, and some, which contain “whole adrenal gland” even from “grass fed cows” have hormone content that sabotages your adrenals’ repair.  Our supplements don’t have hormone content for that reason.

Adrenal rebuilding, although not an overnight process, is a cornerstone of many health miracle cases in our office.  Chronically ill, pain-ridden, fibromyalgia and many times profoundly sick people have been restored to normal healthy lives. Migraine sufferers, headache sufferers, asthmatics, people with chronic pain, to name a few.  Although many require effective chiropractic treatment to areas of the body get the adrenals restored. To get many very sick and beleaguered patients to well often takes being effective in adrenal restoration. 

This is a critical arena of health to understand well and to apply.  It is not likely that it could be done adequate justice in only a page or two of writing.  I would refer you to our health class (in my name on YouTube and on drarlogordin.com), “Energy and Blood Sugar”.  In that seminar a much more comprehensive discussion of this subject is covered, and the specifics of solution explained. 

Our current lifestyles present great stresses on our adrenals. It is no great surprise that many of us have poor adrenal output, nor that many chronic patients have really burnt out adrenals.  If you fall into either category, one of the best things you could do is help your adrenals rebuild.  While doing so, do strengthen your blood sugar handling system, and reduce your risks for numerous health problems. Adrenal dysfunction causes many problems that reduce function and happiness, many nasty and “incurable” diseases, as well as those that are the leading causes of death.

Far better to support life, live it healthily, without pain, inflammation, allergy, metabolic failure and actively to the fullest than to enrich the trillion dollar drug industry, and that only for the hope of short temporary relief.

Accidents by Dr. Arlo Gordin

In collisions when cars run into cars (or motorcycles, trucks, bicycles, trees, pedestrians, etc.) and metal gets bent, it is common to get injured. These injuries are all too easy to sustain, but to heal completely and properly is not so easy.

Most of the time, injury results in pinching your nerves, in sprains, torn ligaments, pain, inflammation and other symptoms. When these injuries are only partially treated (such as just heat, therapy, massage and drugs) they heal incompletely. You can end up with pain, stiffness or numbness, and later, degeneration and arthritis in your joints from incorrect or incomplete treatment.

Accidents can sometimes cause broken bones, cracked ribs, head concussion or even internal organ injuries. Those are some of the reasons that careful examination is important, and when needed diagnostic tests and x-rays.

You may easily understand the way that injury occurs to your neck and spine. After all, the human head has the weight of a bowling ball, and is supported on a bony spinal column only about an inch and a half in diameter. Snapping the weight of your head against the small neck ligaments that hold it up, injuring your ligaments is the cause of “Whiplash”. Frequently you could damage the normal healthy curve that was in your neck before the accident. The mid-back and low-back spinal areas are also frequently damaged and hurt, causing pinched nerve short circuits and pain.

As result your neck and back can be in pain, and often they don’t move fully or well.

Bracing your hands on the steering wheel can cause the impact to be transferred through your arms, injuring your wrists, elbows, or shoulders. For example, the force into your wrist could cause you a carpal tunnel syndrome which "short circuits" the nerves in your wrist, hands or fingers. Your knee can be injured by striking the dashboard or bracing on a pedal or the car's floor. A foot jammed onto the brake pedal will transfer the force to your ankle, leg, knee or hip, potentially injuring those areas. Rib sprains from force to the rib cage can cause tremendous pain.

In my clinic, I have the experience and technical skills to properly assess an accident. So many times I have seen injuries misdiagnosed and mistreated by other professionals. Even on x-rays, the fractured bones were not "caught", sometimes at emergency rooms or with specialists! And often the exact technique needed to replace a displaced tendon, or unpinch a shorted-out nerve in the neck or spine isn't in the repertoire of other professionals who treat accident patients. When those types of shortcomings are encountered, you can most often expect that your recovery can be limited, that future pains will be expected, and that incompletely recovered injuries can "degenerate" (worsen and become arthritic) as the years after the accident pass by.

Very importantly I care about my patients, and my work is to see that you get fully well. I take your well-being as my most important job. My patients have trusted me for years to do the job exceptionally well and to get them out of pain, restored properly, and healthy.

I have three main goals in helping you after an accident: (1) Get you out of pain and feeling better and moving normally as soon as possible, (2) Follow through to treat each injured area so that they all heal properly and completely, so that (3) You will be free of future problems and not have degenerated arthritic joints from the injury in the years later.

Many people choose Chiropractic care for these types of injuries, because it is the type of treatment designed specifically to restore joints to normal position and function, un-pinch nerves and cause them to heal correctly. It can prevent you from developing degenerated and arthritic joints. It keeps back problems from becoming permanent.

Of course the more advanced, thorough and complete the type of Chiropractic that is used; the better will be your result. With my Advanced Applied Kinesiology which I use in my office, your injuries can be diagnosed, understood, explained and treated accurately.

Nutritional supplementation can be very valuable for its natural pain-relieving effects and in supporting the complete healing of damaged (overstretched and torn) joint tissues and inflamed nerves. Because of the side effects of anti-inflammatory and pain-killing drugs, if they are used at all, they should be used only briefly. However, scientific studies show that frequently nutrients outperform anti-inflammatory drugs. Supplements for injury can relieve pain too, but they speed healing, which drugs don’t. The anti-inflammatory drugs actually sabotage tissue metabolism and healing.

It is very important for you to get to us promptly. Wasted time causes things to heal, but they will be expected to heal in the wrong positions (in the place where the bones shifted to from the microtearing of ligaments that occurs in a majority of accident injuries). Yet another big problem is that many times patients have wasted their insurance money going to other places to get little real help at all. Then the insurance company often won’t pay all over again for the real help that’s still needed, especially after the useless treatment undergone already spent a lot of money on medical bills. What a hassle!

Most automotive injuries and personal injury cases can be paid fully by insurance.

We can also help you in the correct legal and insurance direction. It’s usually far better to have us refer you to an excellent attorney, than to have a lawyer choose your doctor (who when be chosen by an attorney to whom money is the most important motive) on monetary grounds rather than on doctoring skills. I've observed that the attorney's work on settling accident cases with an insurance adjuster can require less specialized skills than those required for healing patients properly!

I can accept many accident cases on insurance and am qualified to make all necessary legal and insurance reports. After an accident, I advise you call us first and promptly, and we can advise you on the phone which are the proper next steps for you to take.

Most important: Don’t waste your time, money, and most importantly your health, doing nothing, taking ineffective drugs, or getting poor treatment. These result in short and long-term problems, pain and lost mobility. That can be avoided by getting the best treatment. Here's my suggestion:

Get the right things done promptly and feel right as quickly as you can, and get things to heal completely and right!