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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

Just a quick reminder, one of the best holidays of the year is coming up. You may be like me and wait a little too long to plan something, so here is a simple reminder and a few healthy ideas for Mother’s Day. We all want to keep our moms healthy, sometimes they need a little push.

Free:

• My book: If she reads it, and uses it, she’ll be healthier than 90% of Americans. If she thinks health is important, she’ll like it. Click here to download.
• Chiropractic Evaluation: There is no better way to stay healthy than to keep your nervous system running at top speed. This is limited to my subscribers mothers. Just call 801-896-3259 and tell us you want the Mothers Day special. A dizzying array of health problems can literally disappear with chiropractic care.

Cheap:

• All moms like cookbooks. But, very, very , very few provide good old fashion tasty recipes. Since the low-fat trend refuses die, here is a cookbook that will make everyone happy. Every recipe, we have tried is down right yummy and she uses real ingredients.
• Here is a pancake challenge for you. My wife is a cooking pro and she tweeked the books recipe slightly and if you buy the book, email me. You WILL not find a tastier pancake recipe. You’ll be a hero for all weekend breakfasts to come.
• The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
• It seems every where I turn there is a breast cancer walk going on. But for the vast majority of women, if they read this book, they will be light years ahead of Susan G. Komen. I would consider this mandatory reading for all women.
• What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer: How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life

A little money:

• A massage! All moms like that. If you are fortunate enough to live in the Salt Lake Valley here is a little special for you. If you call 801-896-3259 and let us know you want your mom to get the Mother’s Day special, she can get an unbelievable massage this Saturday. A half hour for $25. You know she’ll be happy with that. Our massage therapist is fantastic.

Happy Mother’s Day

There are few movies that hit the sweet spot for maximum rewatchability and maximum quoteability with such mass-appealability as “The Princess Bride”

I was watching this with my kids last night for the umpteenth time and it is still enjoyable. My 7 year old can even quote lines from most of the movie. They love the “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam… ”

I was reflecting on what is so appealing about this movie. It really is a reflection of real life in a comic storybook setting. There are many little mini-life lessons I pulled from the movie, just for fun. Read… just for fun. I’m making this up as I go along so just enjoy and reflect on life.

Inigo Montoya: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Count Rugen: Stop saying that!

This is perhaps the most memorable line in the movie.

Why?

He says it over and over again. It is the mastery of repetition. If you want or need to make changes in your life, you need to do them over and over again. Practice. That can be as simple as using the mental theater in your head to making a new, fresh, whole-food meal every week.

My favorite: When someone says “how are you today?” instead of the stock answer “fine”. Say “terrific”. Whether you feel terrific or not. Rehearse that one word and soon your life will be more terrific.

Miracle Max: You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.

This is a great one. I see this in the office every day. Every patient wants to be better yesterday, few patients have the drive to be patient. Great things come to those who wait. Pure and simple healing takes time.

Probably the greatest “miracles” I’ve seen involving couples who can’t seem to have kids. Amazingly after a few months of chiropractic care and supplement therapies I’ve seen the body come back into enough homeostasis and function to allow the conception to happen.

Seems like a miracle but it really is just healing, happening over time, by getting the nerve interferences out of the way.

Westley: Why won’t my arms move?
Fezzik: You’ve been mostly-dead all day.

Many people have been mostly dead for years. The ones we can’t help are the ones who won’t try any thing new or different. They are amazingly content with pain and suffering. Then there are the ones like Monica who just had never known anything different.

“Dr. Altman saved my life. I am 36 years old and I truly felt that I was dying. I was taking 2-10 ibuprofen a day and a bottle of antacids per week on top of in addition to my prescriptions for asthma and high blood pressure. After my first adjustment I felt like new. I could actually move without being stiff or in pain.” -Monica Spees

If you have any problem, any problem in the world and some one offers to help you, or you seek them out. Listen to them. The may have the answers you need. Take what you can, use what makes sense to you, then leave the rest.

There seems to be a very high number, like 80%, of people who have never been to a chiropractor. I can’t imagine life without it. I feel so amazing after getting adjusted, I think reawakening the nervous system of more people would bring them out of being “mostly dead” all day.

Westley: Give us the gate key.
Yellin: I have no gate key.
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, tear his arms off.
Yellin: Oh, you mean *this* gate key.

I have to admit, this is my favorite line in the whole movie. I crack up every time. The fear of loss makes us do stuff. One of the greatest motivators I’ve ever seen is when someones hands are falling asleep and tingling all the time.

The fear of losing the function of your hands is very powerful.

I’ve also noticed for many people. The gate key they have been looking for is either chiropractic adjustments or whole-food supplements. Both combined can unlock health like nothing else. Give me a quick call if you need more info. 801-896-3259

Inigo Montoya: Let’s go.
Fezzik: Where?
Inigo Montoya: Find the man in black obviously.
Fezzik: But don’t you know where he is.
Inigo Montoya: Don’t bother me with trifles.

Health is a journey. You will always be on it. Enjoy it. I’ve done this for 15 years and I still don’t have all the answers. I learn new things about health all the time. When you are stumped, don’t give up. I have heard this too many times.

“I’ve seen this doctor and that doctor and they all told me ____”
“I’ve seen 3 specialists and they all told me ____”

What I think happens is people get discouraged when the “doctor” doesn’t have any answers. Let me tell you, I know some very smart, herbalists, naturopaths, homepaths, massage therapists, and a few other unmentionables that have all helped me over the years with different problems.

Be open minded and the right people may just show up when you need them, or are now ready to listen.

Now enjoy this fun movie once again,
Dr. Altman

What are your favorite lines?