Tag Archive | "Flu"
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As some of you may have noticed (at least I hope you noticed), I was out of the office last week Wednesday through Friday. I wish I could say that I was at an exciting chiropractic conference or sitting on a beach somewhere, but, alas, I was at home, in bed, sick. My symptoms included: [...]
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I was coming home from California on Sunday, after a nice week off with my beautiful, expecting wife and son, Nico. While waiting for our flight I couldn’t help but notice the handful of people in line to get their free flu shot. First off, many of you have heard Dr. A and I speak [...]
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Now that it is winter in Australia, they are beginning to go through the FEAR mentality of the FLU like we did last year. Remember how they told us we were all going to get really sick and die with the so called H1N1 outbreak? What a joke….it wasn’t any different than any other year, [...]
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Anyone who has sat through goes to the grocery or watches TV has no doubt been exposed to the alphabet soup of vitamins – A, B, E, D, K, not to mention the myriad of minerals, herbs, etc that are pushed on us by doctors, health guru, and the food industry. What should you be [...]
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That’s what a new study published by the British Medical Journal states. The authors performed an analysis of over 1400 studies concerning the drug. They concluded that “Because of the moderate effectiveness of neuraminidase inhibitors, we believe they should not be used in routine control of seasonal influenza.” (it should be noted that in drug [...]
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Hey everyone, hope you’re having a great start to your week. If you’re like me your probably sick of hearing about the swine flu. Dr. McKinley wrote a great piece about it last week. In it he mentioned that one of the events that put Chiropractic on the map was the Flu epidemic of 1917-1918. [...]
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Hey everyone, I just wanted to post a release on the Flu and Chiropractic from Dr. Matthew McCoy, a chiropractic pediatric researcher and editor of the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal, and Family Health. He does a great job of outlining the research showing why people everywhere should be getting adjusted as part of their plan [...]
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I have been trying to tell my patients, friends, and family for years that germs and viruses don’t cause disease in and of themselves; its the strength of the host organism that is the determining factor. I could go on and on about the science of this, but I’m going to refer to a link [...]
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MSNBC – Early flu season cases are resisting Tamiflu The drug companies and their researchers are seemingly baffled again early into the flu season! At least the public can finally start to see that taking medication or getting a shot doesn’t buy you immunity. The best bet is playing offense by doing the things that [...]
