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КартиниLast night I did a class in the office on having healthy kids. I have 3 kids and I want them to be as healthy as possible, so over the past 16 years I’ve made a point to seriously consider what makes a healthy person.

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Don’t listen to the mainstream

This is probably the easiest way to evaluate health advice. I seem to remember Mark Twain saying something to the effect of — when ever you find yourself on the side of the majority, you are usually wrong.

I realized after the class, that having healthy kids can be a very daunting task if you buck the current trends.

In 2010 the Utah dept. of health found that 20.4% of elementary students are overweight, most are boys. Nationally, 80% of kids are obese by age 12.

That’s appalling

Seriously, this isn’t a problem for medical doctors, government agencies, or schools. They are focused on money, not health. Insurance companies don’t pay for you to be healthy. It isn’t really health care, it is sick care.

Being healthy takes money and it has to be a family priority, period. But, how about a few ideas that don’t cost anything or much.

#1 Change your brain. Most people still have an outside-in approach to health. Why do I know that? Only 3% of the nation goes to chiropractors, 65% of people are overweight, and no other nation takes more medications than the USA.

Take a pill, get surgery, take a shot. Uh,uh, no siree bob. Health is an inside-out job. Always was and always will be. If you are ill and remain ill for an extend period of time, your insides are rotten, dying, malnourished, and weak.

#2 Asthma is a major problem with kids. The Outside approach is what? A steroid inhaler, right. So where is it coming from? Well, we talked about an article in the medical journal Chest, that linked a 50% increase in asthma in very young children to antibiotics. (another outside approach)

Here are 3 inside approaches I’ve seen help. First, probiotics  can help undue the damage to the guts from the antibiotics. Second, in the amazing book, Your bodies many cries for Water, asthma is listed as a byproduct of dehydration. It is a pretty fascinating thought. Third, is using chiropractic to release nerve pressure going to the nerves of the lungs.

#3 ADHD. This is a very large problem. For one, active normal kids are being misdiagnosed as hyperactive pretty regularly, estimates are close to a million kids.  But a true ADHD outside approach is to use a psycho-active drug like Ritalin. (nothing like a little kiddie cocaine to make a classroom all warm a fuzzy)

Now remember, this is a summary of an hour long class. Here are some natural inside out approaches that any family can do.

• Eliminate grains and sugars from the child’s diet. They heavily contribute to allergic reactions and diabetes.
• Replace all drinks with water. Once again, they heavily contribute to allergic reactions (milk) and diabetes (soda).
• Add fish oils / cod liver oils (very critical for normal brain function by adding essential fatty acids).
• Avoid all processed foods, severely devoid of critical vitamins and minerals . Give them whole, natural foods and whole food supplements. Without nutrition the brain works poorly. See the book “The Crazy Makers”.
• Get the kids adjusted by a chiropractor. I can’t begin to relate the amazing stories I’ve seen involving cerebral palsy, SIDS, asthma, ADHD, sleeping, colic, self-mutilation, nausea while reading, failure to thrive, walking, running, and on and on. All improved with an adjustment to a bone causing pressure on a nerve.

I’ve seen all these have major impacts on kids. I shared a lot of stories in the class of patients and friends whose kids lives have been radically improved by these simple things. Ask me anytime about how to help kids.

Besides my website, and seeing me in person. The two main references I used for the class are the book “The Crazy Makers” and the website Mercola.com. Please read more and become angry about the sad state of the health of our children. It takes a strong and dedicated parent unwilling to cave to mass media to make a difference.

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Now I have to be careful here, because I’m not implying any treatment or replacement of drugs. I’m relaying my experiences with myself and patients.

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It is pretty well established that nearly everyone can benefit from the use of a multivitamin. Why? Because vitamin deficiencies can cause disease. If you look up the cause of “scurvy” you’ll find that it is from a lack of vitamin C, but it is also illegal for a non-medical doctor to tell you that, because “scurvy” is a disease.Our country has a very, very screwed up system that doesn’t benefit the health of the general population. So as a result of extensive lobbying and money spent on advertising, the average American has been left out in the dark to suffer…

…obesity
…hormone problems
…digestive troubles
…heart disease

and a whole host of other issues that would make a mother cry.

Remember, I’m just talking about issues I have experienced directly with patients in practice. My favorite was a heart patient who was medicated to the hilt and progressively getting worse. After talking to him, it was obvious his body was starving for nutrients.

An interesting thing happened 4 days before his doctors visit.

He had been taking whole food supplements for his nutrient deficiencies and taking his prescribed heart medications for 6 months. All his symptoms had disappeared except an off-balance feeling.

Four days before his next medical visit he was scheduled to run out of his meds and no pharmacist would fill his prescriptions without a doctors order. Those four days were the best four days he had had in years and you probably guessed it, the off-balance feeling disappeared.

To my amazement, on his next medical visit they documented his experiences being off his meds. I was so proud of them.

If you want some very interesting reading on heart disease, just mosey over to the topics on the right and pull up “Bruce West’s”. There is enough to make your head spin.

The real message here is good nutrition is always good for you.

Interestingly, back in the 1930’s, just after the very first multivitamin was on the market, this was said by the enigmatic “Bureau of Investigation” to any one asking about it.

It “is obviously a crude piece of quackery”

“To say that ‘heart trouble’ is a vitamin-deficiency disease is to make a statement that is meaningless and silly”

After these statements surfaced, Dr. D.T. Quigley, a Professor of Surgery at University of Nebraska College of Medicine said:

“There is sufficient evidence to convince any thinking person that high blod pressure, apoplexy, hardening of the arteries, obesity, stomach and duodenal ulcers, mucous colitis, diabetes, insanity, and cancer and many other chronic conditions often develop on a basis of vitamin deficiency.”

Here is my question to you. Do you think your body will work better or worse if you deprive it of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, or other necessary nutrients?

For a simple example, your muscles need calcium to contract. They also need other things, but somehow, your heart muscle beats from the time before you were even born without medications to help it along. It’s funny how the body was designed to work efficiently if it is given to proper nutrients and nerve supply.

I find it so ironic that giving the body it’s basic requirements is frown up as quackery and looked to as a last resort.

When a patient walks in desperate and so full of problems they don’t know where to turn I have two answers.

1. I look for spinal subluxations interfering with their nervous system. I’m ever amazed how an adjustment can turn a persons body around.
2. Second, I give them “Catalyn”. The multivitamin from Standard Process. This is whole food supplementation at it’s finest.

In every case, the struggling person has improved, period. Catalyn is a funny name, but a very powerful supplement because it is 15 specifically chosen foods that offset the most common nutritional deficiencies that exist. It is so good that the formula hasn’t changed in over 80 years. Why?

The foods are left intact. Basically, just the water and the fiber are taken out. All the natural synergists and active enzymes are left alone the way God intended. Some scientist isn’t messing with it. Unless, you think you can out do God, there isn’t a better multivitamin.

How much to take can be different for each person and their needs. For someone in dire straits, there is no limit. I have them take handfuls. I take this every day as one of my corner stones to good health, like brushing your teeth, and drinking water.

This is one of the easiest ways to improve your health. I am trying to write a handout on Catalyn but there is so much literature that spans 80 years of clinical research it is going to take me a long time. If you value nutrition, this month is your chance to get Catalyn a little cheaper.

For August, Catalyn is 20% off. Plus, I’ll review any vitamins you have or questions, or problems for free.

To order just call my order line Voicemail: 612-BE-GREAT ((612-234-7328))
email me: docaltman (at) gmail (dot) com
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If you like the idea of living like no one else, you’ll like my book.

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This weekend in Utah is pioneer days and unless you live here, you have likely never heard of it. But, all of you have heard of pioneers. They are the adventurous souls that know no fear, and many times push for advances with little thought of consequence.We owe a lot to pioneers, they pave the way for the rest of us. Since, nearly every corner of the earth has been explored and the idea to most of us to go through voluntary hardship isn’t appealing, should we forget the idea of being a pioneer?

People set off in new directions for a few reasons

1. Escape problems
2. Find new land
3. Find new freedoms
4. Pure adventure
5. Fame and glory

You can still be a pioneer, and in this day and age you almost have to be. HUH?

If you look around you see high-tech MRI’s, CAT scans, blood tests, specialists, exotic herbs some pioneer found, or some new ab twisting, cruncher, stretcher, stimulating and marvelously lazy device to make you superman while watching TV drinking beer.

In some ways people have always been health pioneers, looking for an easier, faster, cheaper, lazier way to be healthy. Just watch TV for one commercial break. Drug ads are a great example.

So how can you be a pioneer?

Do things most people can’t or won’t.

Even venture into new territory.

There are very few people paving the way to good health. What would possess you to be a health pioneer. To go where no doctor has gone before. Your health. It is your time.

• You may have to be the pioneer just for your family. You may not have been raised with good eating habits and are over weight.
• You may not have learned to enjoy exercise and are dreadfully out of shape.
• You have have never been to a chiropractor and your body may be running at 40% capacity because you are riddled with subluxations and a nervous system that crawls like a caterpillar versus a rocket car racing across the Bonneville salt flats.
• You may only think in negative terms and spout gloom and doom because you never were taught to read good up lifting books and avoid the news.

There may be lots of things for you to pioneer. Maybe just for yourself, maybe for your family, and maybe for your community and just maybe the whole country. I know you can do it, because I have. It took me more than a dozen years and it is still a process. But, the more new territory you conquer the easier it gets.

The toughest part of being a pioneer is the first step. Maybe that’s not even it. I could be the idea that you are sick and tired of persecution.

• Sick of being told you have to live in pain.
• Sick of being told you are depressed.
• Sick and tired of being pumped full of medications.
• Sick of medical gloom and doom.

Maybe you are one of the rare idealogs that recognize the problems heading your way and wish to prevent them. This is the pinnacle pioneer who is looking for new territory before it is too late.

I have quizzed 1000’s of patients for years on health habits and what they know about health and prevention and more than 80% have yet to master some fundamental basics of health and I’m not just talking about eating and exercising.

Start with my free book for the basics to good, healthy living.

My next favorite inspirational book is “Action, nothing happens until something moves” by Robert Ringer. The title says it all. If you live your life on the couch, nothing will happen. Lazy people get run over and left behind. Unless, take action to stop buy soda, you’ll always have health problems. Action is the key, not excuses about your husband, or your upbringing, or your job, or your kids. I’ve heard a million excuses and only a few are valid. But, I also know people who have overcome unimaginable odds.

You are a pioneer, now pick a direction, and go. Unsure. Download my book and go through the check list.

-Dr. Altman

P.S. If you are interested in a sample chapter I helped write for an upcoming book on coconut oil, send me a quick email. It focuses on new ideas to preventing heart disease. This is one area to pioneer. If you follow the masses, look out. Stats don’t lie, and that’s all I’ll say right now.