Conquering Antibiotic Overuse

An excerpt from a medical email I get weekly. Please take the time to read this and understand the info. This weeks topic:

Conquering Antibiotic Overuse
Medscape: It would be interesting to learn what leads to the most prescribing and most inappropriate prescribing by clinicians. Can you talk a bit about the key issues in both the outpatient and inpatient settings?

CDC: It is estimated that roughly 50% of antibiotics are unnecessarily prescribed in both inpatient and office settings. This is especially true for upper respiratory infections (URIs) like cough and cold illness, most of which are caused by viruses. Prescribing antibiotics for viral URIs is the most common misuse of these drugs. These infections will resolve on their own without antibiotics. In children, antibiotics are the most common cause of emergency department visits for adverse drug events. Children may have up to 9 colds each year. Four out of 10 children who present to an outpatient provider with the common cold receive an antibiotic, even though antibiotics are never indicated for a common cold.

Clinicians cite lack of time, perceived patient expectations, and diagnostic uncertainty as reasons that antibiotics may be prescribed when not needed. For example, prescribing an antibiotic can be quicker than taking the time to counsel a patient on appropriate use and about why antibiotics are not needed for viral illnesses. In addition, physicians are trained to be wary of missing serious treatable diseases and may prescribe an antibiotic when uncertain of the diagnosis because they are concerned about liability.

FLU VACCINE CAUSES SEIZURES IN CHILDREN

Flu vaccine push already underway; first batch causes seizures in children
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) As ridiculous as it seems, retailers across the U.S. are already stocking their stores with Christmas goods. It’s all about the big commercial push, of course, since retailers make about 50 percent of their profits during the Christmas season.

Similarly, flu vaccine manufacturers generate huge profits during the Christmas season, too, and they’ve already begun shipping this year’s winter season flu vaccines to U.S. pharmacies and hospitals. Never mind the fact that the actual flu strain in the vaccine is little more than a hodgepodge collection of last year’s flu strains. Each year’s flu vaccines are technically only applicable to last year’s flu season, making them perfect for time travelers but useless for everybody else.

Along with the big vaccine push comes the inevitable vaccine propaganda. It’s all so predictable: First there’s the announcement that “everybody should get vaccinated.” This is followed by some later announcement in the pre-Christmas season of “how bad” this year’s flu season is getting. This is followed yet again by another urgent bulletin by health authorities urging everyone to get vaccinated.

The big vaccine push only quiets down when vaccine supplies dwindle. But as long as vaccines remain in inventory, the big vaccine push will stay aggressive, and during this annual charade, there won’t be a word mentioned about vitamin D and how it is far more effective than any vaccine at protecting people from seasonal flu.

Reading between the vaccine lines
This year’s vaccine push has begun with some curious admissions by the vaccine industry, reflected in a Reuters story (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS…). After the usual explanatory text about how flu vaccine manufacturers have started shipping their largest quantity of vaccines ever produced for flu season, the story prints this curious text:

“And U.S. officials said they were changing the labeling on a vaccine made by Australia’s CSL Ltd (CSL.AX) because it appears to have caused a higher than usual rate of seizures in children.”

Now hold on a second.

If you read between the lines here, this statement implies that: 1) Vaccines cause seizures in children. And then 2) This particular vaccines causes a higher rate of seizures in children than the usual rate of seizures in children.

Why is this curious? First off, because vaccine pushers have always sworn their vaccines caused no seizures whatsoever. No neurological problems. No spontaneous abortions in pregnant women. No increased rates of autism. Vaccines are all perfectly safe, they say, and no children are ever harmed by them.

That’s the mythology, at least, behind vaccines. But the reality is far different: Vaccines do cause seizures in children, and this year’s vaccines look like they’re going to cause a significantly higher rate of seizures than usual.

Note, by the way, that this was not the headline of the story. This admission was tucked away in the text of a Reuters story, without any real emphasis. If Reuters was really interested in reporting the truth about vaccines, the story headline would have been, “Flu vaccines cause seizures in children.”

Line up, sheeple!

Faith not Fear

***Dr. Peter J. Amlinger***

As many of you know my sister passed away a little over a week ago. First of all, I would like to thank everyone for their love, prayers, hugs and kind thoughts and messages. All these gestures certainly made this difficult time easier to move though.

It was interesting for me to observe my sister through this process, especially near the end of it. Even though she could hardly swallow she still took her calcium supplement daily until she no longer could. Another time, she got quite upset because somebody gave her a calorie/supplement with a soy product in it. She did not eat soy because she had previously had a “hormone sensitive” breast cancer and had been told to avoid soy.

What struck me about these two examples was not that she was continuing to make healthy choices right up until the end. What struck me was that her motivation for doing so was actually grounded in fear. She took calcium for fear of osteoporosis and avoided soy for fear of cancer. I realized that many of her choices surrounding her lifestyle were based on disease prevention rather than health promotion. Can you see how the first intention is rooted in fear while health promotion has its foundation grounded in faith. The fear based, disease prevention model is based on the belief that health comes from the outside. The health promotion model is based upon the intention that if we give our body what it needs it will create health from within, out.

I am not minimizing lifestyle choices here gang. I am contending that living a life based on fear will nullify many of the positive lifestyle choices we might be making.

There is an old saying that says “what we fear comes near.” Living a life full of fear and worry or their counterparts is most deleterious and will erode our health and well being.

Work to eliminate these shackling emotions from your life and begin as Thoreau said, “to move confidently forward in the direction of your dreams.”

MY SISTER IS DYING

This was written by my good friend Dr. Peter Amlinger last week. This past saturday his sister passed. Please read his letter about UNCONDITIONAL LOVE that he learned from this ordeal.

***Friday afternoon we received a phone call informing us that my sister was crashing and to get to Kitchener as soon as possible. Her remaining lung is being consumed by cancer, as is her liver. Her days are numbered, but we do not know exactly how it will play out. It is literally in the hands of God.

As the weekend evolved and family and friends rallied around her and our family, the healing power of love became self evident.

It is interesting to me that in the face of serious illness and death the veil of judgement, resentment, hardened attitudes and conditional love falls away and we, in a seemingly miraculous manner find within ourselves the ability to look past all imperfections and simply see people as they really are, subunits of the Creators perfect unconditional love. All the charge that has been held for a lifetime falls away and LOVE stands alone.

The other outstanding gift this situation has once again reminded me of was that all the charge was being held in me. If I can’t see perfect love in another being, it is because I am blocking it.

In the face of such love, and the peace, stillness of mind and pure emotion that it brings, it seems absolutely absurd to hold such charges until these times overpower them.

I therefore, choose not too. I choose to love unconditionally and to seek out and discover the light of LOVE in everyone I meet from this day forward. I choose to focus on the perfection of creation in all nature, for that in and of itself sets the perfection free and fans the flame of love, peace and healing.

Perhaps it is time that you let go of all that is not unconditional love in your life. Perhaps it is time for us all to embrace life, to embrace love and to let it flow, unfiltered. I will be offering lots of hugs today, just to let people know I love them and that I see and feel the unconditional love that they are. You could choose to do the same.

Be love!

INDEPENDENCE DAY

This sunday we will be celebrating the 4th of July or Independence Day. It is called this because it is when we declared independence from Great Britain. We were no longer under the control of another country and we were more free than before. Fortunately, in our office, we get to see a whole different kind of Independence and depending on who you ask maybe a much more important Independence.
The Independence I am referring to is the Independence from drugs and surgery, the Independence from sickness and disease and ultimately the Independence from fear and victimhood. Our current health care, or sickness care, model has created a society of medical victims. We are just waiting for the next virus, bacteria or disease to ATTACK us and cause us to need drugs and surgery. We are frightened with our lives that if we don’t see the medical doctor every time we don’t feel good and get some medications than we will be doomed to disease and early death. This is not the way it actually works.
Born within each and every one of us is an INNATE INTELLIGENCE which is there to control and coordinate every function in the body. It controls everything from the heart beating, the lungs breathing, the bowels digesting, a cut healing and the immune system keeping you from disease. This intelligence is always perfect and at 100%. It uses the nervous system as its electrical communication system in the body. It begins in the brain and has to travel down the spinal cord and out every nerve to get to every organ, tissue and cell within the body. When this communication system is clear, that intelligence will keep you well, whole and sane. If it is interfered with the body loses the ability to heal and coordinate itself regularly. We call this DIS-EASE, or lack of EASE within the body. Interference comes from a misaligned vertebra in the spinal cord putting pressure on the system. We call this a SUBLUXATION. In a subluxated state you are more susceptible to illness and disease. This makes you more reliant on the medical system and keeps you as a victim to PHARMACEA!!!
Declare your Independence today. Decide to make CHIROPRACTIC part of you and your family’s regular health care regime. This is TRUE HEALTH CARE!!! Removing the physical interference to your bodies own INNATE INTELLIGENCE, allowing for proper communication and healing. Then you can live truly FREE and that is the whole goal!
Just this month we have seen kids become free from seizures, an end to trigeminal neuralgia, no more headaches, month long ear infections end after one adjustment and many more miracles of the body healing itself.
I hope everbody has a safe and loving Independence Day.

Dr. Brian

How much do you want?

How much do you want?

Exactly. It seems like a silly question, right? I’m not talking about money, here, but how much health do you want? How much life do you want? How much happiness do you want? How much stress reduction do you want? What about balance?

Do these sound attainable? Are you there already? Or is it something that is so far away that you feel like it could never be reached?

Stress is the number one killer in the United States. At first you may not agree and argue that it is heart disease followed closely by cancer. While those statements are true, the underlying cause of EVERY illness is STRESS; physical, chemical, or emotional.

Heart disease occurs when the heart tissue is under stress, most commonly by arterial insufficiency, hypertension, or electrical malfunction. Most people that have heart disease are completely unaware of its presence until the first symptom, a fatal heart attack. If you are one of the lucky few to have been diagnosed early, you may be on drugs that may be marketed under the term “preventative care”. Pharmaceuticals usually mask symptoms, delaying the inevitable for a few more years while leaving the underlying cause of the disease unaddressed.

Chiropractic care addresses the cause of disease and promotes LIFE by removing harmful STRESS from your body every time you are adjusted. This allows healing energy to flow naturally to all parts, not just the parts that hurt. That is what it means to have YOUR POWER ON!

So how much do you want? 25%? 50%? How about 100%? That is what I’m talking about.

Life is happening right now. Are you in it or are you bogged down with stress? I am your warrior, telling you like it is, so that you can be your best, not just sometimes, but ALL OF THE TIME! That is why I am here.

Stop in for a life enhancing, stress reducing adjustment today. Your body will thank you. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who would benefit from adding years to their life and life to their years.

Love & Light

Dr. Brian

UNSEEN MIRACLES

We took a group of patients to Atlanta to see Dr. Guy Riekeman and his “Power of One” presentation. It was three hours of an amazing talk geared to show us how powerful each and every one of us is. He showed us how our decisions and actions help to shape the world, either in a positive or negative way. He highlighted five exemplary people who have, with their ideas, changed the course of history. One in particular was Candy Lightner. In 1980, her 13 year old daughter was hit and killed by a drunk driver. “I promised myself on the day of Cari’s death that I would fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead” she wrote. She went on to found M.A.D.D.(Mothers Against Drunk Driving). The object of her organization was to raise public awareness of the serious nature of drunken driving and to promote tough legislation against the crime.

Since that time Candy Lightner has appeared on major television shows, spoke before the US Congress, addressed professional and business groups, and worked tirelessly for years to change public attitudes, modify judicial behavior, and promote tough new legislation. When asked about all the time she had missed with her other children she said that she made a commitment to change the publics opinion on drunk driving to prevent other children and adults from dying at the hands of a drunk driver. Dr. Riekeman’s point was that although the number of drunk driving fatalities is down significantly from 1980, we have no idea how many children haven’t died as a result of her work.

This reminds me of a comment my friend made about chiropractic and its effects on humanity. He said, “The greatest miracle from chiropractic are the unseen miracles.” Most people who come in to our office for care see incredible outward results like the end of migraines, no more low back pain, normalized blood pressure, disappearance of ear infections and colic the true MIRACLES are the ones they will never know about. The lungs that were developing asthma before care, the heart that was functioning abnormally and even the liver that was developing cancer will now never become the disease they might have been.

How could that be. To understand that we must first understand how the body works. Your body was designed by God to control, coordinate and heal itself. It uses the nervous system to achieve this. The brain, spinal cord and nerves, according to Greys Anatomy, control and coordinate every cell, tissue and organ within the body. On a normal day the body produces approximately 10,000 cancer cells. Fortunately we have an immune system which keeps these cells from coming together and forming a cancerous tumor. If the immune system is reduced in function you automatically become more susceptible to developing a tumor. So…what controls the immune system? Your nervous system! And…where is your nervous system housed? In your spine! And if one or more spinal bones move out of their normal position and put pressure on the nerve system(a subluxation), wherever those nerves go to can not and will not function normally. If that happens to be your immune system than you are more susceptible to cancer, heart disease, the flu and even the common cold.

So, we have no idea of how many diseases and problems our patients haven’t gotten due to the unseen miracles of a chiropractic adjustment. Get adjusted and be thankful for the unseen miracles.

Live with Passion. Live clear.

Dr. Brian Lieberman
Chiropractor

NEWS ABOUT DR PAT

Over 6 years ago we had the blessing to have Dr. Pat McCarver join us in the office to help us achieve our mission to change the lives of people in our community. He has become a powerhouse chiropractor and a best friend of mine. But…it is time. Dr. Pat has decided it is time for him to spread his wings and open his own office in Ringold, GA. As hard as it was to even think about not having my right hand in the office, I have come to the realization that it was time; maybe even past time. Dr.Pat is an unbelievable chiropractor, a servant in the true sense of the word, a lover of people, and a blessing in so many lives.

So…Friday, May 28 will be his last day in the office(sort of). We will have a huge party for him that afternoon(details to follow soon). But…the good news is that Dr. Pat will be staying in the office on Tuesday and Saturdays. Starting June 1st, we will be open 10-12 on Tuesday mornings in addition to the afternoon(3-6:30) hours we already have. So, this is great news. Many people in the office who would prefer to continue seeing Dr. Pat exclusively can switch to these days. Everybody else can stay on their current days and either see me exclusively, or Dr. Suzanne or both of us.

Dr. Suzanne has done a great job getting involved in the office and is a phenomenal chiropractor. You can be certain that Lieberman Family Chiropractic will continue to deliver the same incredible level of chiropractic care that you have come to expect from us. We will continue to focus on saving lives by helping people raise healthy, non-medicated families. We will continue to focus on children and removing subluxations that often occur at birth to enable kids to stay CONNECTED and HEALTHY and SANE. We will continue to help people heal the way God intended them to…from ABOVE DOWN INSIDE OUT and not form the outside in. We will continue to help people function better so they can get off or stay off DRUGS(part of the 3rd leading cause of death). We will continue to talk TRUTH to everyone we encounter and to make it affordable to add lifelong, specific, scientific chiropractic to you and/or your families lives. This we promise.

I thank each and every one of you for trusting us with your health. We hope we have done our job well. We hope that you understand that you were created with an INNATE INTELLIGENCE INSIDE OF YOU that CONTROLS AND COORDINATES EVERY FUNCTION YOU HAVE. We hope you inderstand that this intelligence(LIFE) FLOWS OVER YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM CONNECTING EVERY CELL, TISSUE AND ORGAN TO YOUR BRAIN. We hope you understand that INTERFERENCE TO THAT INTELLIGENCE CAN OCCUR WHEN A SPINAL SEGMENT MISALIGNS AND GETS STUCK THERE. We hope you understand that INTERFERENCE TO YOUR INNATE INTELLIGENCE DISRUPTS THE BODIES ABILITY TO HEAL AND CONTROL ITSELF NORMALLY AND THAT THIS EQUALS DIS-EASE(LACK OF EASE OR HARMONY) IN THE BODY. We hope you understand that this DIS-EASE, IF LEFT LONG ENOUGH LEADS TO ACTUAL DISEASE PROCESSES IN THE BODY.

We also hope you understand that a SPECIFIC, SCIENTIFIC CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENT REMOVES PRESSURE FROM THE NERVES AND RELEASES THE INTELLIGENCE WITHIN THE BODY ALLOWING IT TO AGAIN BEGIN HEALING AND REPLICATING ITSELF NORMAL, BUILDING HEALTH RATHER THAN DISEASE. THIS IS THE CHIROPRACTIC MEANING OF LIFE. IT IS OUR “STORY” AND IT NEEDS TO BE SHARED WITH EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD ON THE PLANET. THIS IS OUR MISSION!!!

WON’T YOU HELP US AND HUMANITY. TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF CHIROPRACTIC. REFER YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS BECAUSE YOU KNOW ITS RIGHT…JUST LIKE NUTRITION AND EXERCISE ARE RIGHT, SO IS CHIROPRACTIC BUT EVEN BIGGER. ITS ABOUT BEING RECONNECTED TO YOUR CREATOR THROUGH THE NERVE SYSTEM TO ALLOW FOR THE FULL EXPRESSION OF LIFE WITHIN YOUR BODY. Dr. BJ Palmer called this the BIG IDEA. He said, “GET THE BIG IDEA AND ALL ELSE FOLLOWS.”

We will miss Dr. Pat but fortunately he is not totally leaving.

We LOVE & APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU,

DR. BRIAN & EVERYONE AT LFC

SCHOOL LUNCHES THREATEN NATIONAL SECURITY

High-calorie school lunches are a threat to U.S. national security, according to a study released Tuesday by Mission: Readiness, a group of retired military officers.

Military recruitment is being jeopardized because school lunches are causing many children to become overweight or obese, which means that fewer young people can meet the military’s physical fitness requirements, the Associated Press reported.

The study found that 27 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 are too heavy to join the military.

Mission: Readiness wants Congress to pass a nutrition bill that would make school lunches healthier, the AP reported.

So this is what it comes to. This might be the catalyst to do what has needed to be done for so many years. How obvious is it that our cafeterias tend to serve “junk” food to our children. We wonder why kids can’t perform in class, can’t pay attention, are overweight and generally unhealthy.

School nutrition is a major player in this problem but certainly isn’t the only or even the most important answer to the problem. My kids go to Berry Elementary School, which I consider to be an excellent school, yet the lunch served there is not healthy at all.

But as with anything else in my life I have a choice. My wife and I can let my kids eat what the school serves or we can send them with lunches that we have prepared. We choose to do the latter. We choose to put some healthy and some not so healthy choices in our childrens lunches.

This applies to all aspects of health. WE have CHOICES to make. We can decide how we are going to go about our health care agenda. We are not victims. Choose LIFE. Chose HEALTH. At dinner tonight the conversation turned to Michael Jackson and that he had died. My daughter asked how and we told her it was from drugs, legal medications. She, as always when she hears about medications, was apalled. How did doctors get away with this. At first I agreed but then I realized that there is a bigger lesson in this.

WE need to stop seeking drugs to solve our problems. If WE weren’t at our doctors offices, asking for drugs, we wouldn’t be prescribed drugs. We also need to stop teaching our children, inadvertantly, most times, that drugs are the answer to every problem that we have. You don’t? Lets see. You have a headache…here take this drug. You have a fever…here take this drug. You have trouble behaving…here take this drug. Your not happy enough…here take this drug. When your girlfriend breaks up with you…don’t take drugs! HUH? Where’s the consistancy in that. There isn’t. We need to teach our children that drugs are for EMERGENCY purposes ONLY!!!

We need to teach them that health and healing are our God-given right. That God created our bodies to be healthy and whole but that they also need certain things to operate correctly. What do they need? Clean air, pure food, clean water, proper rest, movement in the form of exercise, a good mental outlook and A PROPERLY FUNCTIONING NERVOUS SYSTEM!!! These are the keys to proper function and therefore good health, happiness and spiritual fulfillment.

Your nerve system controls and coordinates every function in your body. Just like you need 100% electricity to flow over the wire to the light bulb for it to work properly, you need 100%, uninterrupted nerve flow from the brain to every part of your body for the body to function normally. If I turned down a dimmer switch in your house you would expect the light to be lower. But, is the problem the light bulb or the lack of proper electrical flow along that wire. This is the same in the body. The nervous system can be interfered with like a dimmer switch. This is from a bony misalignment called a SUBLUXATION. A subluxation is nothing more than a dimmer switch in the body, causing LIFE to be interfered with(because thats actually what flows over the nerves). A SPECIFIC, SCIENTIFIC CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENT REMOVES THE INTERFERENCE AND ALLOWS 100% LIFE TO EVERY PART OF THE BODY.

So, the question then becomes…Who in your family do you want to be walking around “dimmed down”? Who are you ok with living life at less than 100% of their potential. NOBODY!!! Thats the answer.

So, if you haven’t already, get your family checked ASAP. Also tell your friends, neighbors, coworkers, church members and anyone else you walk into in the street that PRINCIPLED CHIROPRACTIC CAN HELP THEM LIVE AT 100%!!! THEY’LL THANK YOU FOR LIFE!!! You can even forward them this email, or invite them to “Dinner with the Docs” this tue night April 27th at 7pm at 333 on Broad.

Love & Light

Dr Brian

THE MISSING LINK

I remember hearing a lecture by best selling author and world-renowned scientist Candace Pert some years ago. The lecture was based upon her research into the mind body connection and cutting edge science in the field of science called psychoneuroimmunolgy, in which she was a pioneer.

After reviewing vast amounts of data that showed how the brain controlled all of the chemistry and functions in the body and how our thoughts influence these processes she made the following statement:

Chiropractic is the missing link!

After years of searching, Dr. Pert’s research lead her to the fact that if the spine, particularly the upper neck is subluxated, the mind body connection breaks down and the delicate balance in the body’s chemistry, especially the brain and spinal cord is disrupted. This in turn leads to many varied health and life issues as this mechanism is engaged in virtually all aspects of our life experience. Many other researchers are confirming what chiropractor’s have been saying since 1895. Health flows from above down inside out over a subluxation free nervous system; it doesn’t happen any other way.

Chiropractic is the missing piece of the puzzle and millions of satisfied patients affirm the power of chiropractic adjustments. Over the past few weeks our patients have noted the following changes, (and many more), in their life experience since starting chiropractic care:

- lower blood pressure, well being -no seizures
- after years of fatigue; sleep, energy – overcome PMS and mood swings
- no more migraines, better control of diabetes -90% reduced sinus problems
- less drugs, less pain, more health – delayed hip surgery 10 years
- making my life a better place to live in -normalized cholesterol
- helps me function in high definition – helped me run a half marathon
- reduced my need for seizure medication – helped us get pregnant with 2nd child
- rarely get sick now – keeps me limber, so I can golf
- helped my walking, better moods, stronger, sleep better, sick less; signed an MS patient

and many, many more

Keep your power turned on through regular chiropractic care; it is the missing piece of the puzzle!

Call in for our vaccine teleconference on Thurs, April 22 at 9pm. The # is 213-289-0500, access code 6141535. You do not have to announce yourself.

Love & Light,
Dr. Brian