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Acupuncture involves stimulating specific
anatomical points in the body for therapeutic purposes.
Acupuncture is a modality of diagnosing and treating disease,
pain or physical conditions by stimulating various points
on or within the body or interruption of the cutaneous
integrity by needle insertion to secure a reflex relief
of the symptoms by nerve stimulation. Acupuncture is recognized
as a modality of treatment, which is an adjunct to chiropractic.
We utilize sterile, non-corrosive, disposable needles
for your safety. You should always inform your doctor
of the medications you are currently taking, whether or
not you are or could be pregnant, if you have a cardiac
pacemaker, and if you have received cosmetic implants.
The practice of chiropractic medicine
The "practice of chiropractic medicine" means
a noncombative principle and practice consisting of the
science, philosophy, and art of the adjustment, manipulation,
and treatment of the human body in which vertebral subluxations
and other malpositioned articulations and structures that
are interfering with the normal generation, transmission,
and expression of nerve impulse between the brain, organs,
and tissue cells of the body, thereby causing disease,
are adjusted, manipulated, or treated, thus restoring
the normal flow of nerve impulse which produces normal
function and consequent health by chiropractic physicians
using specific chiropractic adjustment or manipulation
techniques taught in chiropractic colleges accredited
by the Council on Chiropractic Education. No person other
than a licensed chiropractic physician may render chiropractic
services, chiropractic adjustments, or chiropractic manipulations.
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Chiropractic technique helps us to detect
the nerve energy blockage in a specific nerve energy pathway
by detecting and isolating the exact nerve root being
pinched. The exact vertebral level in relation to the
pinched spinal nerve root helps us to trace the travel
route, the destination and the target organs of that particular
energy pathway. D. D. Palmer, considered the "Father
of Chiropractic," said, "too much or too little
energy is disease." A pinched nerve can cause disturbance
in the energy flow. Chiropractic medicine postulates that
a pinched nerve or any such disturbance in the energy
flow can cause disease, revealing the importance of maintaining
an uninterrupted flow of nerve energy. A pinched nerve
or an obstruction in the energy flow is often the result
of an allergy. Spinal manipulation at the specific vertebral
level of the pinched nerve, can relieve the obstruction
of the energy flow and help the body to arrive at a state
of homeostasis.
At Chiropractic & Acupuncture, Dr. Lee has been practicing
since 1994. Chiropractic means treating with one's hands.
Manipulation is the manual movement of a joint or vertebrae
to restore health by normalizing blood, nerve and muscular
balance. Together, the treatment involves finding and
treating the cause of the body's dysfunction to promote
healing.
Please call our office with questions regarding your
specific needs.
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Overall, I found that the body works better
with fewer chemicals. If you study any books on Toxicology
(Study of Poisons), you will learn some interesting facts
about illness. Many categories of illness are created
from chemicals or drugs. And by the way, the word "drug"
comes from the word "poison". It is these toxins
that are responsible for many of the problems you might
be having right now. The main way they affect the body
is by blocking the communication or connections within
the network of nerves, hormones and circulation. A person
goes from a whole interconnected, coordinated entire system
to a body that has organs working independent of each
other. The organs loose the support and help from each
other. The immune system loses the ability to even know
what it's fighting - ends up destroying itself - how low
can the body get?
The resulting energy blocks are what we focus on in BRT.
We are less concerned with ridding symptoms than we are
interested in locating and eliminating energy blocks.
The resulting affects are a body that is communicating with each
part in balance.
Many of these chemicals are called Endocrine Disruptors.
An Endocrine Disruptor is any chemical that acts like
estrogen. Estrogen has growth affects like cysts, tumors,
fibroids, enlargement and even cancer.
What types of toxins are Endocrine Disruptors?
Pesticides
Insecticides
Herbicides
Fungicides
Toxic fertilizers
Chemical pollution
Dioxins (certain plastics compounds)
Animal growth hormones
Estradiol - a synthetic hormone in birth control pills
and Hormone Replacement Therapy, which has major side-effects
including ovarian cancer. DES (Diethylstilbesterol) -
a banned estrogen used in animal feeds from 1938-1979
and given to pregnant female during 1938-1970 to prevent
miscarriages. It was found to cause reproductive abnormalities
in the offspring of women who took it in males and females.
DDT was also banned. It is considered an ED and is still
in soil around America, as well as in other countries.
It works very well on mosquitoes and bugs, but is banned
due to the serious side effects it was creating.
Choradane is another banned pesticide that has created
damage to endocrine glands. They used it for killing termites.
Chemical compounds containing certain heavy metals like
cadmium and arsenic as well as other metals.
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Endocrine Disruptors alter hormonal function by:
Mimicking hormones
Blocking or damaging receptor sites (receptor sites are
those parts of gland, which receives the hormone communication).
Blocking the signals from glands that produce hormones.
EDs block receptors that activate genes.
Altering the levels of hormones.
Modifying the hormone function.
Increasing the size of the gland (hypertrophy).
Creating cysts on the gland. (Cysts are an increase in
cell division)
Creating tumors on or in the gland. (Tumors are enlarged
growths on organs and in glands or organs.
(Fibroids are tumors).
Increasing hormone levels.
Decrease the number or availability of receptor sites
and hormones.
Creating cancer - cell division that is out of control.
Synthetic estrogen has a side effect of ovarian, vaginal,
liver and breast cancer.
How much Endocrine Disruptor does it take to create this
damage?
It has been shown that very low levels of arsenic - equivalent
to about 10 parts per billion - selectively inhibit the
ability of hormones and its receptor to turn on genes
in the cells. The levels capable of endocrine disruption
are far below those necessary to cause cell toxicity.
"The doses that we're using in cell culture that
cause these endocrine-like effects are well below any
levels that caused any signs of toxicity in the cells.
In fact, we were down in what's called the nanomole range,
or parts per trillion, and still seeing these effects.
Now, if you look at what people are exposed to, it suggests
to us that we could see these endocrine effects quite
reasonably, probably, at the levels that people are exposed
to here in the U.S."
Dr. Josh Hamilton, one of the authors of the book Our
Stolen Future What effect does Endocrine Disruptors really have on
our glands?
Because our body naturally produces hormones and has receptor
sites (receiving sites) for hormones, being exposed to
substances that mimic hormones like endocrine disruptors
can make hormones RESISTIVE and STUBBORN. As a defense
mechanism, your body, when exposed to hormone mimickers,
tends to shut down its hormone production or hormone receptor
sites. If a person is born with 20,000 receptor sites
on one gland, over the years of exposure to environmental
hormones, a person can end up with 5000 or less. This
would explain two things: as a person ages, their hormones
become less and less available in function.
The other situation is the person with normal hormones
levels on blood tests but has all the symptoms of hormonal
deficiencies. Having less receptor sites might not show
up in a lack of production of hormones, it might show
up in a "lack of receiving" of hormones. Someone's
talking but no one is listening.
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