Dr John's Health File: caffeine kills

Dr John's Health File: caffeine kills

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caffeine kills

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New Study Shows Cardio Workout May Damage Your Heart

New Study Shows Cardio Workout May Damage Your Heart

Chiropractic in Preston (Leyland), 01772 431133 Chiropractors in Liverpool (Ormskirk)

Parsons Chiropractic in Leyland near Preston and Ormskirk near Liverpool: CALL 01772 431133 (LEYLAND) OR 01695 581529 (ORMSKIRK)www.parsons-chiro.co.uk Our Chiropractors in Lancashire are registered with the General Chiropractic Council (www.gcc-uk.org). We are held to the highest possible standards of care and proficiency available in the UK. To become a Chiropractor requires 4 – 5 years at University and 1000s of hours of study in human health and function. Our job is to listen to you and assess your healthcare needs accurately and quickly, then, with your input, formulate a plan of action to help you achieve your health goals. This month Parsons Chiropractic is offering a FREE CONSULTATION SERVICE which includes a discussion of the history of the complaint, a thorough physical examination and explanation of the findings. Your chiropractor will then inform you whether treatment would be appropriate. This is a no obligation service, which allows you to find out at no cost whether chiropractic would benefit you. We welcome all ages to the clinic. Although our patients usually begin care when they are in pain, we encourage preventative and wellness care at Parsons Chiropractic in order to reduce the chances of re-occurrence and to maintain maximum spinal health. As you know the health of the spine has a direct bearing on your nervous system that controls every part of the body. www.parsons-chiro.co.uk Our personalised service will make you feel comfortable from the first visit. Expect us to take your problems seriously and spend the required time finding the right solution for you.

dead duck

Funny dead duck joke A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said, 'I'm so sorry, your Duck, Cuddles, has passed away.' ... The distressed owner wailed, 'Are you sure?' 'Yes, I am sure. The duck is dead', he replied. 'How can you be so sure?' she protested. 'I mean, you haven't done any testing on him or anything! He might just be in a coma or something.' The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room, and returned a few moments later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head. The vet patted the dog and took it out, and returned a few moments later with a cat. The cat jumped up on the table and also sniffed delicately at the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on it's haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room. The vet looked at the woman and said, 'I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck.' Then the vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman. The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. '£250!' she cried, '£250 just to tell me my duck is dead!!' The vet shrugged.' I'm sorry. If you'd taken my word for it, the bill would have been £20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now £250.'

Dr John's Health File: wrist and hand pain in musicians

I just treated a well known local musician today (double bass player) I used Koren Specific Technique (KST) – he had repetitive strain in the wrist. Certainly had better movement afterwards... I also used Advanced Muscle Rehabilitation as taught by Brian Bronk – here is a description of him treating famous jazz pianist: Les McCann, a legendary jazz piano player and singer, was around 60 years of age when he suffered a stroke on stage during one of his concerts. Afterward his right hand was partially paralyzed, stuck like a fist. His thumb could move, but his fingers were stuck in a clenched fist position. When he went back to playing piano he could vamp chords with his left hand but couldn’t play with the right, so he brought in a couple other instruments to take over solos. A mutual friend referred him in. Did I have a clue this could be fixed? Not one. My friend had more faith in me than I did. He said, “Do me a favor and see what you can do.” And this is how I know what I know – don’t think, just work. It took a dozen one-hour sessions working from his elbow to his hand when one day it broke free and was reborn right before our eyes. Les cried like a baby, he knew he was free at last. Of course his hand was weak and would take some time to regain strength, but we’ve rarely worked on it since, instead focusing on other areas. Les claims the fingers on his right hand are 98% resolved, and enjoys playing piano fluidly again with both hands. “In the four years of therapy and all the therapists I had met before Dr Bronk, nothing can compare to the treatments of Dr Bronk.” "http://doctorjp.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/wrist-and-hand-pain-in-musicians

wrist and hand pain in musicians

http://www.parsons-chiro.co.uk/2012/05/treating-wrist-and-hand-problems-in-musicians/

40,000 deaths in USA caused by aspirin and painkillers every year!

"Conservative calculations estimate that approximately 107,000 patients are hospitalized annually for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related gastrointestinal (GI) complications and at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each year among arthritis patients alone." (Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Recent Considerations in Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Gastropathy”, The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998, p. 31S) "It has been estimated conservatively that 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur among patients with rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis every year in the United States. This figure is similar to the number of deaths from the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and considerably greater than the number of deaths from multiple myeloma, asthma, cervical cancer, or Hodgkin’s disease. If deaths from gastrointestinal toxic effects from NSAIDs were tabulated separately in the National Vital Statistics reports, these effects would constitute the 15th most common cause of death in the United States. Yet these toxic effects remain mainly a “silent epidemic,” with many physicians and most patients unaware of the magnitude of the problem. Furthermore the mortality statistics do not include deaths ascribed to the use of over-the-counter NSAIDS." (Wolfe M. MD, Lichtenstein D. MD, and Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs”, The New England Journal of Medicine, June 17, 1999, Vol. 340, No. 24, pp. 1888-1889.) If you are good at maths, you can see that 40,000 Americans are killed each year by these drugs. And that makes them ten times more deadly than swine flu (because 40,000 is ten times greater than 4,000).

Long-Distance Running Damages Your Heart

Long-Distance Running Damages Your Heart Following the recent death in the London marathon: "Do you pride yourself on running mile upon mile, week after week? Do you love the challenge and adrenaline rush that comes from completing a marathon? Let me preface the information that follows by saying this: as a former sub 3-hour marathon runner myself, I understand the drive that pushes many athletes and weekend warriors to compete in these strenuous events. But now that I have examined the research, I firmly believe doing so may put your heart at risk. For example, two recent studies showed: Heart damage after lifelong cardio: In a study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology,v researchers recruited a group of extremely fit older men. All of them were members of the 100 Marathon club, meaning athletes who had completed a minimum of 100 marathons. If running marathons provided cardiovascular benefit this would certainly be the group you would want to seriously examine. So what did they find? Half of the older lifelong athletes showed some heart muscle scarring as a result, and they were specifically the men who had trained the longest and hardest. Heart scarring after elite cardio training: An animal study published in the journal Circulationvi was designed to mimic the strenuous daily exercise load of serious marathoners over the course of 10 years. All the rats had normal, healthy hearts at the outset of the study, but by the end most of them had developed "diffuse scarring and some structural changes, similar to the changes seen in the human endurance athletes." from Mercola.com

Running-marathons-permanently-damages-heart

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2071018/Running-marathons-permanently-damage-heart.html

chlorine health dangers to arteries

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“Cholesterol lowering statin drugs increase your risk for heart attacks.”

This from famous exercise trainer Brian Copeland:
“Cholesterol lowering statin drugs increase your risk for heart attacks.”
Says the American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs. They released a report with over 900 clinical studies proving that statins not only increase your risk for heart attacks but cause neurological damage, muscle and bone loss, loss of equilibrium and balance and cognitive and memory loss.


Statin drugs do indeed eliminate cholesterol from the body... but guess what your brain and nerves are made of? ... that's right, cholesterol. In fact your brain is a huge hunk of cholesterol. Nerves are wrapped in a sheeth called myelin which acts as insulation for nerve fibers. Myelin is cholesterol. The more myelin, the faster nerve impulses travel, the less myelin the slower they travel.

Now think about the impact on your brain power! You want more myelin.

When Einstein died they disected his brain hoping to find the answers to his genius... guess what they found... lots and lots of myelin a.k.a. cholesterol.

The last thing you want to do is decrease cholesterol.

As cholesterol levels drop your body's ability to repair and rebuild nerves decreases as well. This is why peripheral neropathy is a common symptom of people on statins. Peripheral neuropathy is a condition where your nerves die, usually starting in the feet and hands and working their way closer to the core. This is what happens in extreme cases of diabetes.

Bottom line, protect your cholesterol don't destroy it!

sports drink of olympics contains poison !

a sports drink made by coca cola is being very widely advertised as the drink for the Olympics - look ye at the ingredients - its full of syrup, salt and sucralose :

"Side Effects and Warnings of Sucralose

One of the most important things to note is that sucralose contains chlorine which can be harmful if consumed in large amounts. Chlorine in sucralose is considered to have carcinogenic effects (cancer causing). Also, excess or regular intake of sucralose can lead to toxicity. Sucralose side effects and warnings can be divided into two types; minor and severe. The following are the minor sucralose side effects in children and adults.
Fatigue
Headache
Dizziness
Nausea
Bloating
Diarrhea
Blurred vision
Numbness
Shortness of breath
Weight loss
Abdominal pain
Confusion
Body pain
Cramps (hmmmm, just the thing for athletes then...)
Apart from these, some people also experience severe side effects that are caused due to the effects of sucralose on the important organs of the body. The following are the severe sucralose side effects and warnings:
Depression
Panic attacks
Joint pain
Migraine
Reduced growth rate
Hyperplasia of the pelvis
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Abortion
Although there are no known long time sucralose dangers, it is believed to have a negative effect on the liver and the kidneys. Some of the potential effects of sucralose include shrinking of the thymus glands and enlargement of the liver. Sucralose is also believed to be the cause of certain kidney diseases. In pregnant women, intake of sucralose can lead to still birth, abortion, decreased birth weight of the baby, etc. It should be noted that all the above mentioned side effects are potential side effects that may or may not be experienced by people. The number and severity of the side effects also vary from person to person..."