Most people never visit the chiropractor until they have pain somewhere (usually their back). If you protect your teeth or get regular check-ups with your doctor you should do the same for your spine.

Studies have shown that elderly people who have had their spine aligned regulary have fewer medications, fewer hospital stays, fewer debilitating ailments, live longer and have more actives lives even into their 80's and 90's. LETS GET HEALTHY and STAY THAT WAY! Make an appointment today with your chiropractor for that overdue check-up. Don't have one? Call me and see if we make a good team for your health.

TO FILTER OR NOT TO FILTER?

Two things come to mind when I think of filtration-- what I drink and what I breathe. Do we need to filter our air and water and what happens if we don't? We regularly change the air filter, oil filter and fuel filters in our cars and the air filter on our furnaces or they would stop working. Why would we not consider our bodies just as important as our car? YOU MUST BREATHE EVERY DAY AND YOU MUST USE WATER EVERY DAY. If youdon't use a filter then your body doesit for you. Your lungs trap particulate in tiny hairs called cilia and the mucous but the fumes go directly to the blood stream. Your liver ust then try to process the toxic substances and then your kidney must filter it out. In the water again any thing toxic that gets into the blood must go thru the liver and kidney, adn the digestive tract tries to eliminate organisms and partculate through the colon. Filtering our air and our water are critical functions but we never really think much of it unless we have serious health issues that DEMAND our attention. IF YOU DON'T USE A FILTER THEN YOU ARE THE FILTER. Consider this:

The air is filled with particulate. Have you ever noticed the little pieces floating in the air in the direct sunlight? That is dust, dust mites, dead skin cells, pollens, and fabric from our clothing, upholstery, window coverings, bedding and carpet, Clinging to all that particulate is bacteria, fungus and viruses. Between all that particulate is fumes and other toxic gasses from our industry and autos along with the natural gasses we were meant to breathe. When you change your furnace filters you have seen what collects on them, and you wipe the dust off your funiture, but HOW DO WE WIPE THE DUST OFF OUR LUNGS? The only protection you have is to use a HEPA quality air filtration system to remove what we can. What your lungs fail to filter goes directly to the blood stream where your liver and kidney complete the filtration process. What are these organs worth to you? Mother nature periodically helps to clean the air of other stuff and creates ACID RAIN. This unavoidably gets into our water supply .

The water is teaming with dissolved metals, (including some toxic heavy metals like arsenic & mercury) bacteria, microscopic worms & protozoa. There has also been found in our municipal supplies, traces of herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, petroleum and other toxins and even pharmaceutical drugs.

The living organisms in our water supplies prompted our government many years ago to use chlorine to kill them and help prevent disease. This is a highly effective means of killing bacteria because of the chemical reactivity of chlorine. Unfortunately chlorine is also toxic to humans. If you have any doubt read the warnings on your household bleach and decide if you would drink it.

I know the concentration of chlorine in the water is very low and is supposed to be safe but I don't believe there is any safe level especially when you consider the need to drink 1/2 gallon or more of water daily for a lifetime.

In addition to the chemical reactions to other substances in our water, chlorine will also alter our food quality when we cook with chlorinated water. Chlorine is absorbed thru the skin as well. Consider the precautions HAZMAT takes in the event of a chlorine spill. The first thing is to evacuate the area! Yet we don't think twice about bathing in it or cleaning with it. Your water filtration should at the very minimum be a double carbon filter to remove chlorine and the chemicals it creates. This type of filter also removes some particulates. Ideally it would be a filter that removes particles as small as one micron so that most bacteria protozoa and their eggs and cysts are caught in the the filter. Even better if this water system also uses high intensity UV light to kill any remaining living organisms with out chemically altering the water.

Both of these filters require an investment of a few hundred dollars but your health and the health of your family is well worth it. It is far less costly than the cost of a lung, liver or kidny transplant even if you have health insurance. What is your co-pay? Many are 20% of hte hospital bill and that protion amounts to alot of money just for the surgery let alone the ongoing medical costs after a transplant to prevent rejection and the repeated illnesses from a delberately lowered immune system. Only you can decide if your health is worth the investment. Your chiropractor can make recommendations on his or her favorite filters but I recommend the e-spring water filtration system and the atmosphere air filtration available by calling the office at 406-755-1113, my personal assistant at 888-209-6645or my home at 406-854-9313