Wellesley Chiropractic Office
New Year Newsletter 2011
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"Health is a state characterized by anatomical, physiological and psychological integrity; ability to perform personally valued family, work and community roles; ability to deal with physical, biological, psychological and social stress; a feeling of well-being and freedom from risk of disease and untimely death." - Physician's Desk Reference Definition of Health
"Allopathic medicine's (drugs and surgery) goal is to allow you to maintain your lifestyle, not change it for the better." - Bruce Lipton
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Who Are We?Wellesley Chiropractic
471 Washington St. Wellesley, MA. 02482
Phone 781.237.6673
Fax 508.651.2209
We have been serving the Metro-West are since 1982. We specialize in family centered chiropractic health care, pediatrics, craniopathy, and long term spinal reconstructive care.
Dr. Rosen practices Sacro Occipital Technique (SOT) and is a certified Craniopath and SOT instructor.
SOT is a chiropractic technique based on the removal of Subluxations and chronic spinal neurophysiological imbalances that effect the overall function on the nervous system. Because of the diversity and flexibility of SOT anyone from infants to the elderly can be adjusted safely.
Office hours:
Mon 2:00-7:00pm Tues 8:00am-1:00pm Wed 2:00-7:00pm Fri 8:00am-1:00pm
Specialty Services
- Pediatric chiropractic
- Low force and standard care protocols
- Allergy desensitization
- Animal (dog and cat) chiropractic care
- Cranial adjusting
- Nutritional evaluation
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Chiropractic - 6 Facets of Health
Balancing your life can be a difficult thing at times but by attempting to include these 6 facets of health in your daily routine you can help maintain a healthier more supportive lifestyle. - Proper Nutrition/Diet
- What you eat, what you need.
- Exercise
- Weight bearing and cardiovascular.
- Proper Rest
- Positive Mental Attitude
- Thoughts are energy that manifest their patterns.
- Spiritual Practice
- Getting in touch with something higher than ourselves.
- Proper Nerve Supply and Functioning Nervous System
- Control and coordination of the entire system - Chiropractic.
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Vitamin D - Myth or Fact
Vitamin D Dose Recommendations
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35 units per pound per day | | Age 5 - 10 | 2500 units | | Adults | 5000 units | | Pregnant Women | 5000 units |
WARNING:
There is no way to know if the above recommendations are correct. The ONLY way to know is to test your blood. You might need 4-5 times the amount recommended above. Ideally your blood level of 25 OH D should be 60ng/ml.
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Vitamin D is a powerful nutrient, that has been shown to have many benefits including protection from multiple sclerosis, diabetes, cancer, and other diseases.
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Greetings!
As we settle in for the New England winter with temperatures dropping and daylight more scarce, it is important to keep active and maintain healthy habits. Eating right and getting proper exercise becomes extremely important at this time of year.
Your spine and cranium - central nervous system - are the main mediators of your internal environment and immune system. Stress shuts down the immune system as it reacts to the hormones produced by your subconscious and conscious thoughts. Dis-ease is produced either by a disruption in the signaling process (nervous system) to the cells or toxicity (created by internal and external factors). A proper functioning nervous system is your best defense against the ravages of stress reactions since it allows the "signal" to be delivered appropriately to the cells, tissues, organs and systems of your body.
The purpose of this publication is to keep you informed about new research regarding chiropractic and other healthcare options to increase your knowledge about the opportunities available to maintain your health. In this way you will be able to make more informed choices regarding your healthcare.
Sincerely,
Martin Rosen, DC
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What is Chiropractic ?
 The purpose of chiropractic care is to restore and maintain the integrity of the relationship between the brain, the spinal cord, its nerve roots and all the cells, tissues, and organs under its control.
These nerve pathways are housed in and protected by the cranial and spinal bones (vertebra). Slight misalignments, distortions or imbalances of these protective structures can cause a disruption of the normal transmission of neurological impulses through these pathways, thus effecting the optimal functioning of the entire body. These disruptive events are called subluxations.
Chiropractic adjustments remove and/or reduce these subluxations, allowing your nervous system to function at a more optimal level. This allows your body a better opportunity to deal with life's stresses including: physical, emotional, spiritual and chemical/toxic stresses.
We recognize six essential facets of health care necessary to maintain an optimal state of health and well-being: proper nutrition, rest, positive mental attitude, spiritual/meditative practice, exercise and a healthy functioning nervous system. All of these facets of health depend ultimately on the last, a healthy functioning nervous system, to truly reap their full benefits.
The fundamental goal of chiropractic care is to correct or reduce subluxations, allowing the proper transmission of nerve impulses throughout the nervous system, so that every cell, tissue and organ of your body can have a proper nerve supply at all times. This assists the innate intelligence of your body to function at its optimum efficiency, increases your healing capacity, and allowing you to express your full potential. Regardless of the disease, symptom or condition, you body functions better if nerve interference (subluxation) is removed. The ultimate goal of chiropractic is the restoration and maintenance of a healthy nervous system, not the treatment of disease. |
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Relationship Between Vertebral Deformities And Allergic Diseases
We are able to obtain significant alleviation of these diseases by improvement of the neurotripsy caused by the chronically narrowed intervertebral foraminae from the 8th to the 10th thoracic vertebra. This is the innervation region relating to the adrenal glands and adrenal cortex impacted by changes in the vertebrae caused by vertebral misalignment in the thoracic region. This was commonly present in allergic disease patients.
There is a high possibility that allergic disease relates to the innervation of organs that relate to the immune function which are affected by changes in the vertebrae caused by the chronic vertebral misalignment. There is a high possibility that a preventive effect and significant reduction of the improvement period can be obtained by reinforcing and improving the muscles supporting the rachis. There is high possibility that the adrenal cortex secretion's function of allergic diseases patients is declining slightly.
There is an expectation of alleviation, and prevention of development of symptoms by correcting the changes in the vertebrae caused by chronic vertebral misalignment, which is common in allergic disease patients.
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Environmental Health News
Consumers have long been exposed to antibiotics in meat and milk. Now, new research shows that they also may be ingesting them from vegetables, even ones grown on organic farms. For half a century, meat producers have fed antibiotics to farm animals to increase their growth and stave off infections. Now scientists have discovered that those drugs are sprouting up in unexpected places.
Vegetables such as corn, potatoes and lettuce absorb antibiotics when grown in soil fertilized with livestock manure, according to tests conducted at the University of Minnesota.
Today, close to 70 percent of the total antibiotics and related drugs produced in the United States are fed to cattle, pigs and poultry, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. Although this practice sustains a growing demand for meat, it also generates public health fears associated with the expanding presence of antibiotics in the food chain.
"The antibiotic accumulation in plants is just another negative
consequence of our animal agriculture industry and not surprising given the quantity fed to livestock," said Steve Roach, public health program director for the non-profit Food Animal Concerns Trust.
Health officials fear that eating vegetables and meat laced with drugs meant to treat infections can promote resistant strains of bacteria in food and the environment.
Scientists believe antibiotics also may have contributed to the
explosive rise in asthma and allergies in children over the last 20 years. Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, following 448 children from birth for 7 years, reported that children who received antibiotics within their 1st 6 months had a higher risk of developing allergies and asthma.
Such health concerns led the European Union in 2006 to ban antibiotic use as feed additives for promoting livestock growth. But in the United States, nearly 25 million pounds of antibiotics per year, up from 16 million in the mid 1980s, are given to healthy animals for agriculture purposes, according to a 2000 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Tainted manure can impact more than just the soil. Once applied to the land, antibiotics can infiltrate water supplies as water seeps through the soil into aquifers or spills into surface water due to runoff, explained Dolliver.
The presence of antibiotics within the food chain is likely to
increase as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has permitted
greater use of controversial drugs on farm animals.
"Antibiotic uptake by plants may be of particular concern to organic crop producers. To our knowledge, there is no current plan or standardized methodology for monitoring antibiotics in animal manure, which is often obtained from nonorganic farms where antibiotics arecommonly used," Dolliver said in the 2007 study.
There are serious societal implications regarding the discoveries
already made and the questions yet to be answered, Gupta concluded.
"We are a chemical society, and humans are the main users of
pharmaceutical products," said Gupta. "We need a better understanding of what takes place when chemicals are applied to sources of food, and we must be more vigilant about regulating what we use to grow food and what we put in our bodies."
Antibiotics in our food, con't
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Yours in Health,
Martin Rosen, DC, CSCP, CSPP
President of SOTO-USA
Chairman of the SOTO-USA Seminar and Pediatric Committees
Chairman of the SOT Council of The Academy of Chiropractic Family Practice
Editorial Board of The Journal of Pediatric, Maternal and Family Health - Chiropractic
Certified Craniopath
Instructor for the ICPA and SOTO-USA
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Thank you!!
We want to let you know how much we appreciate all of you referring your family and friends into our office for chiropractic care. We will continue to do our best to serve them.
From all of us at Wellesley Chiropractic Office.
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