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мека мебелLately, I’ve been in this very unusual place, not a physical place, but a place in time and space. For some reason, in the last month my age has been called into question.

I haven’t had this kind of scrutiny since I started practice.

Except, this time, instead of actually being young, I’m actually older than people think.

Yesterday, I wore a shirt and tie to the office and the most common random question I got all day was “Did you just get back from a mission?” Only in Utah would I get that.

Time does march on.

So, I guess I’d rather have people think of me as younger than older. I’ve made the opposite mistake before.

I saw a new patient 2 months ago and he was 25 years old, with a 2 year old child and a body that screamed old and decrepit.

I’ve wanted to write about this phenomenon since then, but I couldn’t figure out how until this morning.

Would you like the secret to growing old gracefully?

Here it is? Two words! How easy is that?

Inertia
and
Entropy

Inertia is the tendancy of an object or a person to stay still unless acted upon by an outside force.

So how does that matter? Well, a ball doesn’t get up and move through the air by itself, it needs a person to throw it.

The same goes for your body. It doesn’t move unless you deliberatly get up and move it. Movement is life, hint, hint.
Couch potatoes need not apply.

Your muscles need to move to stay strong. I broke my leg annd spent 2 months in a cast. Guess what happened to the size of my leg? It was tiny in 2 months.

Your nerves need motion. Yes, they send electrical signals and physical signals along their path. A spinal bone that isn’t moving can stop that flow 60%. See a chiro and live better.

Your intestines need motion. Your blood has to flow. Your brain has to having moving fluid to be healthy. Everything has to move.

So get moving and live better.

Entropy is the natural downward spiral of a highly organized “thing” to a less organized “thing”.

If you build a beautiful house with every modern amenity, then never touch it for years, never mow, never trim the trees, never clean, never do anything, what happens?

In 10 years, you’ll likely not be able to even see the thing.

Decay and Disintegration is natural.

The goes for your body. Without active participation on your part, you will decay, just like rusting metal or a sea cliff.

How do you combat entropy?

One word. Hey it’s getting easier to be healthy. We are down to one word instead of two.

Ready?

Discipline.

You are in charge of you.
What you eat.
What you drink.
When and if you exercise.
When you go to the chiropractor.
How you think.
How you move forward in life.

You are you.

Are you looking younger than you are? or are you starting to wish for a sheet to cover up with for Halloween?

The good news, everything about you can change.
Here is the crib sheet to growing old gracefully. The older I get the more of an authority I get to be.

Ready

1. Don’t be lazy. Get outside.
2. Any exercise will do.
3. Must see a chiropractor. I see spinal decay every day from those who thought their pains would go away.
4. Eat “real” food, not from packages.
5. Drink good clean water.
6. Take Standard Process whole food supplements.
7. Constantly move to get better. No matter where you are do a little more tomorrow. The couch is not your friend.

Send me an email if you are stuck. docaltman [at] gmail [dot] com. Take action for your life and never look back.

This simple list is how to start and where to focus.

Most of you have read this blog for many years. I usually write about health and every few months I throw some lifestyle things in here, because they indirectly relate to your health. Health is really physical, mental, and spiritual.

You probably have noticed that sometimes epiphany messages come right at the right time and you have those ahh ha moments at unusual times.

I had that moment today. I was laying in bed thinking, jeez, I’m tired and pondering not going to church. I was out late last night, working

I felt compelled to go, not out of guilt, but out of just a plain thought I was going to miss something today.

It was so good I felt the need to pass it along to you.

Why is it that “we” never have any extra money?

The $75,000 were asked the same question and they answered $150,000.

The $150,000 were asked the same thing and they responded half- million.

Unless you follow a few simple rules, you’ll never have enough.

Are you ready?

Step 1: Admit that you are rich. You may not feel that way, but compared to most of the rest of the world we have a ton of stuff, advantages, freedoms, choices, and opportunities. If you feel guilty, you can change that emotion to that of gratitude. Sometime every day be thankful for what you have.

Step 2: Don’t be arrogant. This doesn’t apply to most of you. But, you all know the kid driving the convertible BMW that daddy bought for him, waving his hands around like the world should bow to him.

Step 3: Don’t put your hope in what you have will make you invincible. Life can and often will throw you curve balls, earthquakes, tornadoes, cancer, heart attacks, etc. So follow up with the next step.

Step 4: Do “good” with what you have and the time you have.

Step 5: Be “generous” with the extra money you have. To do this you have to do one thing. “Cap” your lifestyle. If you don’t do this you’ll never ever have enough. ie. How many yachts can you water ski behind?

We are all commanded to give. Life fulfillment reaches a wonderful feeling when you help others. That can be helping clean up a tornado’s destruction, or helping a lost child find their parent, or anonymously donating a bunch of money.

I know my gift is helping people move towards a more natural lifestyle and healthier habits. I try and serve others every day. So think about how you can reach out and “give” a little more this week. Time, Talents, Money?

I’m going to do something I’m not sure I’ve done before.

This week I am giving more than I have in the past, and I was trying to figure out how to give more to you.

Since most of you order Standard Process Supplements from me. If you order supplements this week, ending June 10th, there is an extra 5% off my usual sale prices. You can get a total of 25% off any order, any size. All orders over $100 also get free shipping. That’s worth $13 alone.

Just call my order line (612-BE-GREAT) or send me a quick email (docaltman@gmail (dot) com)

Thanks for being a great reader and there will be more health articles to come.

Part 1

Saving lives is heavy stuff.  Obviously, if you crash your car and are impaled with glass and steel you need an E.R. doc, but in every day life two of the most amazing things people don’t usual think of are chiropractic adjustments and supplements. I know one chiropractor that really did save a babies life with an adjustment. After a fall he quit breathing, and after a very gentle neck adjustment he started gasping for air.

I have also seen Catalyn to save a few peoples lives.  Catalyn is the multivitamin with the funny name from Standard Process.   The name comes from the ability to act as a catalyst in improving health.  This multivitamin is something truly special and shouldn’t be missed.  It has a long history and has made amazing changes in patients lives, dare I say, saved them.

The first person I have seen with an amazing story actually gave a 20 minute lecture to one of my classes on her life.  In a nut shell, she started life as an alcoholic and through her early life she was very malnourished and sickly.   After an accident she ended up in a chiropractors office.  He gave her a big bottle of Catalyn and told her to go home and take a handful and take more whenever she thinks of it.  Needless to say she started getting better.  She credits the chiropractor and Catalyn for saving her life.

For those of you who take one multivitamin a day and call it good, this type of treatment may seem very unusual until…

…I give you a little more info about Catalyn.

Catalyn is the first whole-food vitamin.  What that means is it is actually made from food,  (15 to be exact).  Most retail multivitamins, especially the ones on commercials, are made from isolated vitamin components , artificial colorings, and lots of words you have never heard of.  They spend a lot of money on making the labels look pretty and jacking up the numbers on the label to give the consumer the illusion they are getting a ton of vitamins.  I can promise you this, it is an illusion.  I hear it in the office every week.  People ask why Catalyn looks so weak.  It is all in what you know.

Would you rather eat 1000 banana peels or the inside of 1?

Which do you think would give you more nutrition?

Now magnify that by 15 to give you the 15 foods in Catalyn. 

Now consider the carrot root in Catalyn has at least 200 known ingredients just by itself. 

People are starving for nutrition in our modern age and the easiest and most powerful way I’ve come across is to use Catalyn.  This is a huge topic that has the potential to fry your brain, so part 2 will be yet to come.

This is just the beginning, why Catalyn is a Standard Process fundamental supplement.

Here is a great story of a woman the used chiropractic, Catalyn, and Organic Minerals to save her life.

“In a nutshell… Dr. Altman saved my life. When I first came to Dr. Altman 6 weeks ago I felt hopeless. I’m 36 years old and I truly felt that I was dying. I was so deeply entrenched in medical problems and worries since I was 6 years old, but I didn’t care what medications I took just as long as I could temporarily feel better. After all I thought didn’t have much longer to live, even my body support this feeling.

I was lethargic, depressed, forgetful, and had pain everywhere. I was taking 2 to 10 Ibuprofen a day. I was going through a bottle of antacids per week. This was in addition to my prescription. For asthma allergies and high blood pressure, but I was still having health problems.

I was referred to Dr. Altman and after my first adjustment I felt like new and I could actually move around without being stiff or in pain. I was put on a special diet with supplements. Each week that passed, I was able to ween myself off, of different medications and I didn’t have any more problems with heart burn or body aches, and I have more energy and can even work out without using my asthma rescue inhaler. I even lost 10 pounds without even trying.

So, now I am down to one medication and a standby asthma inhaler, which I rarely use. A big triumph was getting off the prednisone, which I have been on for almost a year. It was indeed killing me.

No, it’s not easy avoiding food, I crave, Nor is it a simple thing to force myself to exercise on certain days, but the results are worth it. I still have work to do. But with Dr. Altman’s everlasting kindness knowledge we’ve accomplished so much in so little time, and we’ll continue to see results. I am hopeful and I feel alive. People have noticed this at work. I’d have at least 10 different people mentioned how good and healthy I look. I am and forever grateful to Dr. Altman for saving my life.”

- Monica Spees ,Mapleton, October 2008