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	<title>Comments on: Pharmaceutical Drug Companies Killing Middle America Legally while Robbing You Blind</title>
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		<title>By: Cholesterol drugs urged for kids with heart risks &#171; Santa Rosa Strength Blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cholesterol drugs urged for kids with heart risks &#171; Santa Rosa Strength Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: keith</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbodyjournal.com/health/pharmaceutical-drug-companies-killing-middle-america-legally-while-robbing-you-blind#comment-14218</link>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a great article, and it is also a correct representation of a system that is profit driven first...and I wonder if they care about health at all ;not that there is anyhing inherently wrong with making an honest profit, bbbut that the question are there profits honest.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a great article, and it is also a correct representation of a system that is profit driven first&#8230;and I wonder if they care about health at all ;not that there is anyhing inherently wrong with making an honest profit, bbbut that the question are there profits honest.</p>
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		<title>By: jess</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbodyjournal.com/health/pharmaceutical-drug-companies-killing-middle-america-legally-while-robbing-you-blind#comment-13647</link>
		<dc:creator>jess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello,
This was a very good article, I just happened to stumble upon this.  I have to entirely agree with the author, who is dead on.  When I was 22 I was in a very bad situation.  I was taken by a family member to a psychiatrist that someone else in my family had gone to.  Anyhow, I had serious issues that I only wanted to talk about with someone in private.  However, the psychiatrist told me there was something seriously wrong with me and did not address my past, what I wanted to talk about or listen to me at all.  
Instead, he told me I had a "thought" disorder and that I was severely mentally ill.  All this was told to me at the first appointment through his "expertise".  I was put on 4 prescription medications and took them for 14 months.  Always he increased the dosage.  I used to run track and cross country in highschool and I STILL gained 70 pounds on this terrible awful medication.  The medication made me sick physically and mentally in ways that I had not been before or since I quit taking it.  I tried to kill myself while I was on it.  
I will NEVER go to a psychiatrist again because this is what happened to me there.  I was put on EFFEXOR, RISPERDAL and two other medications which I threw out when I decided to cancel any future appointments.  I am convinced some of these medications are worse than street drugs and CAUSE serious mental illness, depression and suicide.  You are better off drinking beer if you are sad or talk to a FRIEND, etc.  
These are some terrible drugs.  That's all I can say.  --jess.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello,<br />
This was a very good article, I just happened to stumble upon this.  I have to entirely agree with the author, who is dead on.  When I was 22 I was in a very bad situation.  I was taken by a family member to a psychiatrist that someone else in my family had gone to.  Anyhow, I had serious issues that I only wanted to talk about with someone in private.  However, the psychiatrist told me there was something seriously wrong with me and did not address my past, what I wanted to talk about or listen to me at all.<br />
Instead, he told me I had a &#8220;thought&#8221; disorder and that I was severely mentally ill.  All this was told to me at the first appointment through his &#8220;expertise&#8221;.  I was put on 4 prescription medications and took them for 14 months.  Always he increased the dosage.  I used to run track and cross country in highschool and I STILL gained 70 pounds on this terrible awful medication.  The medication made me sick physically and mentally in ways that I had not been before or since I quit taking it.  I tried to kill myself while I was on it.<br />
I will NEVER go to a psychiatrist again because this is what happened to me there.  I was put on EFFEXOR, RISPERDAL and two other medications which I threw out when I decided to cancel any future appointments.  I am convinced some of these medications are worse than street drugs and CAUSE serious mental illness, depression and suicide.  You are better off drinking beer if you are sad or talk to a FRIEND, etc.<br />
These are some terrible drugs.  That&#8217;s all I can say.  &#8211;jess.</p>
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		<title>By: freedomman</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbodyjournal.com/health/pharmaceutical-drug-companies-killing-middle-america-legally-while-robbing-you-blind#comment-13484</link>
		<dc:creator>freedomman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it is hilarious that when anyone posts anything about not taking legal drugs or disses the big pharma anyway some ignorant people have to claim that its only Scientology that thinks that way. 

I wish my fellow christians had as much balls as the scientologists in regards to standing up to big pharma, I went to their museum on Sunset Blvd Psyciatry Kills. That was a lot of balls, them and prisonplanet.com are the ony ones out there teling it like it is.

Dont know much about scientology, but alex jones is kick ass!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it is hilarious that when anyone posts anything about not taking legal drugs or disses the big pharma anyway some ignorant people have to claim that its only Scientology that thinks that way. </p>
<p>I wish my fellow christians had as much balls as the scientologists in regards to standing up to big pharma, I went to their museum on Sunset Blvd Psyciatry Kills. That was a lot of balls, them and prisonplanet.com are the ony ones out there teling it like it is.</p>
<p>Dont know much about scientology, but alex jones is kick ass!</p>
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		<title>By: Draw</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbodyjournal.com/health/pharmaceutical-drug-companies-killing-middle-america-legally-while-robbing-you-blind#comment-13455</link>
		<dc:creator>Draw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great article I totally agree. Big pharma cares for nothing except the allmight dollar. 

Every school shooting in America has had as the shooter a child on some form of psyche med or two or three different ones.

Yet even the skrinks will tell you that they cannot prove or show the chemical balance theory as even remote fact in this famous sales pitch. If you had a chemical imbalance in your brain shouldnt there be a test of your brain chemistry before they put you on medication that the new black box warnings include such gems as suicide and mania?''

Try not letting your kid drink 6 cans of soda a day, i am sure they will level out a bit. 

Try being an actual parent. Drugs wont fix your faulty parenting.

If you are fat how bout mixing in salad instead of your fatloss perscription washed down with a pepsi to join the double whopper in your gut.

Everybody looks for the easy way out, people ask for god to help them for this pill to make them happy, for that pill to make them thin. Whatever happened to god helps those who help themselves.

If you are sad because you get bullied by others in life anti epression pill is not going to make any bulies go away. Go to the gym, take some pulic speaking classes to boost your self esteem, carry yourself with pride.

It is getting so bad the the dicionary of mental heath "diseases" is growing year by year. I shit you not they have math syndrome, rebellious youh snydrome, it just gets bigger and bigger.

Its like Chris Rock said the drug commercials and companies just keep listing symptoms until they hit one on for you "Are you hot are you cold, are you lonely, are you fat, are you lazy, are you hungry?"

Everyone should watch th movie Equilibruim, that society is at best 2 generations away. 

I wish i didnt beleive in past lives an reincarnation, I gotta come back to this?!!?!?'</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article I totally agree. Big pharma cares for nothing except the allmight dollar. </p>
<p>Every school shooting in America has had as the shooter a child on some form of psyche med or two or three different ones.</p>
<p>Yet even the skrinks will tell you that they cannot prove or show the chemical balance theory as even remote fact in this famous sales pitch. If you had a chemical imbalance in your brain shouldnt there be a test of your brain chemistry before they put you on medication that the new black box warnings include such gems as suicide and mania?&#8221;</p>
<p>Try not letting your kid drink 6 cans of soda a day, i am sure they will level out a bit. </p>
<p>Try being an actual parent. Drugs wont fix your faulty parenting.</p>
<p>If you are fat how bout mixing in salad instead of your fatloss perscription washed down with a pepsi to join the double whopper in your gut.</p>
<p>Everybody looks for the easy way out, people ask for god to help them for this pill to make them happy, for that pill to make them thin. Whatever happened to god helps those who help themselves.</p>
<p>If you are sad because you get bullied by others in life anti epression pill is not going to make any bulies go away. Go to the gym, take some pulic speaking classes to boost your self esteem, carry yourself with pride.</p>
<p>It is getting so bad the the dicionary of mental heath &#8220;diseases&#8221; is growing year by year. I shit you not they have math syndrome, rebellious youh snydrome, it just gets bigger and bigger.</p>
<p>Its like Chris Rock said the drug commercials and companies just keep listing symptoms until they hit one on for you &#8220;Are you hot are you cold, are you lonely, are you fat, are you lazy, are you hungry?&#8221;</p>
<p>Everyone should watch th movie Equilibruim, that society is at best 2 generations away. </p>
<p>I wish i didnt beleive in past lives an reincarnation, I gotta come back to this?!!?!?&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Do You Know What Your Drugs Are Doing To You!</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbodyjournal.com/health/pharmaceutical-drug-companies-killing-middle-america-legally-while-robbing-you-blind#comment-13304</link>
		<dc:creator>Do You Know What Your Drugs Are Doing To You!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 13:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Ger. D.</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbodyjournal.com/health/pharmaceutical-drug-companies-killing-middle-america-legally-while-robbing-you-blind#comment-13274</link>
		<dc:creator>Ger. D.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 01:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Junk food and cigarettes shouldn`t exist. It kills.</description>
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		<title>By: Sandra</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbodyjournal.com/health/pharmaceutical-drug-companies-killing-middle-america-legally-while-robbing-you-blind#comment-13268</link>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 20:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wish you had to spend just one night with the "made up" disease of Restless Legs Syndrome. You'd be looking for prescription drugs too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish you had to spend just one night with the &#8220;made up&#8221; disease of Restless Legs Syndrome. You&#8217;d be looking for prescription drugs too.</p>
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		<title>By: Laurie B.</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbodyjournal.com/health/pharmaceutical-drug-companies-killing-middle-america-legally-while-robbing-you-blind#comment-13237</link>
		<dc:creator>Laurie B.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 21:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amen, Oh Yeah, and all that!  You nailed it.  I'm a mental health counselor, and I'm always experiencing clients looking for the magic pill that will instantly make their life better.  There's no pill that can change a rotten marriage, get rid of controlling parents, erase memories of child abuse, or solve financial problems.  You have to work your way thru those problems (the main word here being "work.")  Oh, by the way, I've been on an anti-depressant for 7 years.  Regardless, I had an episodes of clinical depression last year.  Was it cuz I stopped the med?  No.  It was because I wasn't taking care of myself.  I declined my doctor's suggestion to up the dosage of my med and instead made an effort to get my life in order.  Now I felt better.  But hey, that's just me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amen, Oh Yeah, and all that!  You nailed it.  I&#8217;m a mental health counselor, and I&#8217;m always experiencing clients looking for the magic pill that will instantly make their life better.  There&#8217;s no pill that can change a rotten marriage, get rid of controlling parents, erase memories of child abuse, or solve financial problems.  You have to work your way thru those problems (the main word here being &#8220;work.&#8221;)  Oh, by the way, I&#8217;ve been on an anti-depressant for 7 years.  Regardless, I had an episodes of clinical depression last year.  Was it cuz I stopped the med?  No.  It was because I wasn&#8217;t taking care of myself.  I declined my doctor&#8217;s suggestion to up the dosage of my med and instead made an effort to get my life in order.  Now I felt better.  But hey, that&#8217;s just me.</p>
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		<title>By: Jonathan Hughes</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbodyjournal.com/health/pharmaceutical-drug-companies-killing-middle-america-legally-while-robbing-you-blind#comment-13230</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Hughes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 18:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Upper-Cervical Specific Care

This is the best drug-free advice I can give: Go to an upper-cervical specific doctor to get your body in balance physically and neurologically. If you have never gone to such a doctor, you should do it whether you have any symptoms or not. If you go to one before you have an obvious problem you can greatly reduce the chance of ever getting the problems that plague so many other people. Body unbalances can occur at birth and be unnoticed then, while gradually worsening over time, leading to problems possibly years later. They can also occur because of a traumatic event, like a fall or an auto accident. You will be amazed at what upper-cervical specific care can do, but I need to explain further.

An upper-cervical specific doctor first examines your body for correct posture and measures your entire spine with an infrared scanner to detect unbalances there. Poor posture is an indication of misalignment; the outside of the body manifests what is happening on the inside. By analyzing the measurements, the doctor determines whether you have any misalignments that should be corrected by an upper-cervical specific adjustment. The name “upper-cervical specific” means that the doctor adjusts ONLY the top two vertebra of the spine: the atlas or the axis. 

If you agree to be adjusted, the doctor will take a series of x-ray images of your spine from different directions. Upper-cervical specific doctors can measure the amount and direction the atlas has shifted precisely in 3D: transverse (posterior, anterior), sagittal (superior, inferior), and frontal planes (right, left). From these measurements, the doctor determines the right angle and amount of force necessary to restore symmetrical nerve flow from brain to body. They can do this with anyone, even infants. A baby’s tendons, ligaments, and muscles are very weak and cannot hold the atlas firmly enough to counter the forces of birth or other post-birth traumatic events. Furthermore, the atlas is the most unstable bone in the body, and the most important one to be in the right place for good brain-body communication, without which a host of things can go wrong.

There are several methods of doing an upper-cervical adjustment; they all are gentle and non-invasive. The objective of adjustment is to move the atlas vertebra so as to normalize its position with respect to the foramen magnum, which is the hole in the base of the skull where the nerve cluster enters the brain. The nerves exit the brain past the atlas at given points; the nerves don’t move, but shifting of the atlas can put pressure on the nerves, sort of like carpal tunnel syndrome. When this happens at the top of the spine the rest of the spine shifts to compensate, depending on the amount and direction the atlas has shifted. Any misalignment will put undue pressure on some of the nerves, causing their performance to be affected. More important still, correct adjustment of the atlas will begin a process where the entire spine readjusts itself into a normal state, eliminating nerve pressure anywhere in the spine. Reducing pressure on the nerves as they pass through the spine can improve almost any function of the body. That is because the nerves transmit data between the brain and every process in the body, including things like breathing, digestion, immune system, vision, as well as muscular functions. Thus, an adjustment can potentially affect any of these things.

The adjustment is only the beginning of the healing process. Once the atlas has been moved, the body needs to learn to maintain this position, by means of what is called “brain memory”. This happens over a period of time, during which the patient should avoid any hard physical activity, especially involving the head and neck. The doctor will require a return visit in a few weeks to a month to repeat the measurements described above. If things are improving compared to the initial measurements, further adjustment is not necessary. As improvement occurs, return visits to the doctor will be less frequent. If you have been taking a lot of drugs, it is helpful to take milk thistle. It has a substance called silymarin, which can help to detoxify the liver from the drugs you’ve been taking, and help the body to regenerate.

After you get adjusted you will know what I mean!  What was happening inside you before adjustment was going on in slow motion and steadily getting worse. Following adjustment, the reverse process begins and things will start improving, but not necessarily in the order you might expect.

Most health problems today are identified as “diseases” by medical doctors. This allows them to focus the attention of researchers and pharmaceutical companies on specific maladies. As you know, billions of dollars are being spent this way. However, upper-cervical doctors do not (and cannot) focus their treatment at any disease. Instead, they treat the whole body, an approach that can potentially affect any and every problem in the body, whether identified as a disease or not. By this means, upper-cervical care has been shown to help patients with ADD, ADHD, addictions, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, mental health, Tourette syndrome , autoimmune disease, or nearly any other problem you can think of. Wholesale use of upper-cervical specific doctors by the public can materially impact personal health, health-care costs, drug use and costs—everything about health care can improve.

Everyone should see an upper-cervical specific doctor. Be examined by one right now! People should be lining up at their office door. It will be the best thing you ever did in your life! Even if you don’t think you have a problem you should still be checked. Upper-cervical specific is preventative care. An upper cervical specific doctor can tell you with their objective measurements if you need an adjustment or not. If your measurements are good, an upper-cervical specific doctor won’t do anything. 

If you have a future appointment, keep it! Be treated before your body breaks down and symptoms occur! It is the wise thing to do. It is what I did and I’m glad I did, and so will you! Don’t suffer like so many people you know! The longer the suffering on drugs the longer the recovery!  People don’t need to keep taking drugs that slowly poison them, even as the byproducts of drug manufacturing do to the environment. Montel Williams was relieved of pain that he had for five years with one adjustment from an Atlas Orthogonal upper-cervical specific doctor (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiOtb6yM_ow). The good it did for him can also be for you.

The brain has to communicate with the body. When the brain doesn’t communicate well with a certain part of the body, the related brain area will begin to weaken. And miscommunication can begin the moment a hand or mechanical device sucks, pulls, or yanks a baby out in to the world!  No matter how you feel you could be worse off than you think! Anyone who has a condition that has not responded to conventional care owes it to himself to go an upper-cervical specific doctor.

To learn more about upper-cervical specific care, go to www.upcspine.com on the Web. This site will direct you to other sites that tell more about the techniques, and help you find an upper-cervical specific doctor in your area. When choosing a doctor, you should carefully find out about the methods used. Some good upper-cervical specific methods are Duff method, Atlas Orthogonal, NUCCA, light toggle recoil, Grostic or any other technique that pays close attention to the sagittal atlantoaxial region. The doctor should use x rays -- base posterior, a-p open mouth, lateral, nasium, and some times vertex. Objective measurement instrumentation including infrared scanning must be used before and after adjustment. No twisting of the neck should be allowed in adjustment, and if anyone suggests other types of chiropractic treatment, like full spine chiropractors or mixers DON’T GO THERE!

Upper -cervical specific doctors help to get the body into better balance. There should be a mad dash, like a golf match crowd running from a thunderstorm, going to these upper-cervical specific doctors! Not only will each person benefit, everyone will. Our nation will! And when totally embraced the world will! 

I’m sure you will find upper-cervical specific care beneficial and, like me, you will want to spread the word to your friends, family, and associates. If you have any questions, or you would like me to help with or review your choice of doctor, please feel free to contact me at hughesj@sonic.net.

Jonathan Hughes
May, 2008</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Upper-Cervical Specific Care</p>
<p>This is the best drug-free advice I can give: Go to an upper-cervical specific doctor to get your body in balance physically and neurologically. If you have never gone to such a doctor, you should do it whether you have any symptoms or not. If you go to one before you have an obvious problem you can greatly reduce the chance of ever getting the problems that plague so many other people. Body unbalances can occur at birth and be unnoticed then, while gradually worsening over time, leading to problems possibly years later. They can also occur because of a traumatic event, like a fall or an auto accident. You will be amazed at what upper-cervical specific care can do, but I need to explain further.</p>
<p>An upper-cervical specific doctor first examines your body for correct posture and measures your entire spine with an infrared scanner to detect unbalances there. Poor posture is an indication of misalignment; the outside of the body manifests what is happening on the inside. By analyzing the measurements, the doctor determines whether you have any misalignments that should be corrected by an upper-cervical specific adjustment. The name “upper-cervical specific” means that the doctor adjusts ONLY the top two vertebra of the spine: the atlas or the axis. </p>
<p>If you agree to be adjusted, the doctor will take a series of x-ray images of your spine from different directions. Upper-cervical specific doctors can measure the amount and direction the atlas has shifted precisely in 3D: transverse (posterior, anterior), sagittal (superior, inferior), and frontal planes (right, left). From these measurements, the doctor determines the right angle and amount of force necessary to restore symmetrical nerve flow from brain to body. They can do this with anyone, even infants. A baby’s tendons, ligaments, and muscles are very weak and cannot hold the atlas firmly enough to counter the forces of birth or other post-birth traumatic events. Furthermore, the atlas is the most unstable bone in the body, and the most important one to be in the right place for good brain-body communication, without which a host of things can go wrong.</p>
<p>There are several methods of doing an upper-cervical adjustment; they all are gentle and non-invasive. The objective of adjustment is to move the atlas vertebra so as to normalize its position with respect to the foramen magnum, which is the hole in the base of the skull where the nerve cluster enters the brain. The nerves exit the brain past the atlas at given points; the nerves don’t move, but shifting of the atlas can put pressure on the nerves, sort of like carpal tunnel syndrome. When this happens at the top of the spine the rest of the spine shifts to compensate, depending on the amount and direction the atlas has shifted. Any misalignment will put undue pressure on some of the nerves, causing their performance to be affected. More important still, correct adjustment of the atlas will begin a process where the entire spine readjusts itself into a normal state, eliminating nerve pressure anywhere in the spine. Reducing pressure on the nerves as they pass through the spine can improve almost any function of the body. That is because the nerves transmit data between the brain and every process in the body, including things like breathing, digestion, immune system, vision, as well as muscular functions. Thus, an adjustment can potentially affect any of these things.</p>
<p>The adjustment is only the beginning of the healing process. Once the atlas has been moved, the body needs to learn to maintain this position, by means of what is called “brain memory”. This happens over a period of time, during which the patient should avoid any hard physical activity, especially involving the head and neck. The doctor will require a return visit in a few weeks to a month to repeat the measurements described above. If things are improving compared to the initial measurements, further adjustment is not necessary. As improvement occurs, return visits to the doctor will be less frequent. If you have been taking a lot of drugs, it is helpful to take milk thistle. It has a substance called silymarin, which can help to detoxify the liver from the drugs you’ve been taking, and help the body to regenerate.</p>
<p>After you get adjusted you will know what I mean!  What was happening inside you before adjustment was going on in slow motion and steadily getting worse. Following adjustment, the reverse process begins and things will start improving, but not necessarily in the order you might expect.</p>
<p>Most health problems today are identified as “diseases” by medical doctors. This allows them to focus the attention of researchers and pharmaceutical companies on specific maladies. As you know, billions of dollars are being spent this way. However, upper-cervical doctors do not (and cannot) focus their treatment at any disease. Instead, they treat the whole body, an approach that can potentially affect any and every problem in the body, whether identified as a disease or not. By this means, upper-cervical care has been shown to help patients with ADD, ADHD, addictions, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, mental health, Tourette syndrome , autoimmune disease, or nearly any other problem you can think of. Wholesale use of upper-cervical specific doctors by the public can materially impact personal health, health-care costs, drug use and costs—everything about health care can improve.</p>
<p>Everyone should see an upper-cervical specific doctor. Be examined by one right now! People should be lining up at their office door. It will be the best thing you ever did in your life! Even if you don’t think you have a problem you should still be checked. Upper-cervical specific is preventative care. An upper cervical specific doctor can tell you with their objective measurements if you need an adjustment or not. If your measurements are good, an upper-cervical specific doctor won’t do anything. </p>
<p>If you have a future appointment, keep it! Be treated before your body breaks down and symptoms occur! It is the wise thing to do. It is what I did and I’m glad I did, and so will you! Don’t suffer like so many people you know! The longer the suffering on drugs the longer the recovery!  People don’t need to keep taking drugs that slowly poison them, even as the byproducts of drug manufacturing do to the environment. Montel Williams was relieved of pain that he had for five years with one adjustment from an Atlas Orthogonal upper-cervical specific doctor (see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiOtb6yM_ow" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiOtb6yM_ow</a>). The good it did for him can also be for you.</p>
<p>The brain has to communicate with the body. When the brain doesn’t communicate well with a certain part of the body, the related brain area will begin to weaken. And miscommunication can begin the moment a hand or mechanical device sucks, pulls, or yanks a baby out in to the world!  No matter how you feel you could be worse off than you think! Anyone who has a condition that has not responded to conventional care owes it to himself to go an upper-cervical specific doctor.</p>
<p>To learn more about upper-cervical specific care, go to <a href="http://www.upcspine.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.upcspine.com</a> on the Web. This site will direct you to other sites that tell more about the techniques, and help you find an upper-cervical specific doctor in your area. When choosing a doctor, you should carefully find out about the methods used. Some good upper-cervical specific methods are Duff method, Atlas Orthogonal, NUCCA, light toggle recoil, Grostic or any other technique that pays close attention to the sagittal atlantoaxial region. The doctor should use x rays &#8212; base posterior, a-p open mouth, lateral, nasium, and some times vertex. Objective measurement instrumentation including infrared scanning must be used before and after adjustment. No twisting of the neck should be allowed in adjustment, and if anyone suggests other types of chiropractic treatment, like full spine chiropractors or mixers DON’T GO THERE!</p>
<p>Upper -cervical specific doctors help to get the body into better balance. There should be a mad dash, like a golf match crowd running from a thunderstorm, going to these upper-cervical specific doctors! Not only will each person benefit, everyone will. Our nation will! And when totally embraced the world will! </p>
<p>I’m sure you will find upper-cervical specific care beneficial and, like me, you will want to spread the word to your friends, family, and associates. If you have any questions, or you would like me to help with or review your choice of doctor, please feel free to contact me at <a href="mailto:hughesj@sonic.net">hughesj@sonic.net</a>.</p>
<p>Jonathan Hughes<br />
May, 2008</p>
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