Yesterday I received an e-mail from a colleague that reported Baxter Pharmaceuticals “accidentally” mixed live Bird Flu Virus in their regular flu vaccine.  Now the company reports that due to the proprietary secrets of manufacturing, it doesn’t need to disclose how this contamination occurred.  I have a hunch as to how this might have occurred, please hear me out on this.

A couple of years ago we heard all kinds of things in the news about the potential bird flu pandemic.  This flu was said to have the potential to completely devastate our world.  Records of human infection with the bird flu have been kept by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2003.  Again, because of the intense media coverage, one would be led to believe these numbers must be huge.  Well, of the 6.7 Billion people in the world as of July 2008 there were a total of 412 cases recorded from 2003-March 2009.  That’s  world-wide mind you.  This is .00000006149% of the population over a 6+ year period or .00000000983% of the people per year.  Wow! No wonder there was such a scramble by the drug companies to get a bird flu vaccine to market! Could you imagine the global devastation of infecting 66 people a year? They also neglected to point out that 99% of the people infected by this virus were in direct contact with the infected animals.  According to the CDC it is extremely rare for humans to contract the disease, as we have shown above, but it is almost unheard of for the disease to pass from person to person.  So you might start saying to yourself, ‘What was all the hype about?’

Drug companies for years have thrived on a concept known as disease mongering;  a concept using fear and other avenues to widen the scope of disease often turning normal things into diseases.  For example, shyness may be thought to be a normal personality trait for a specific individual and quite frankly probably welcomed by school teachers.  It would seem wrong to give a child a controlled substance for shyness, however, if you called it “social anxiety disorder” you could scare a parent into believing that there is something terribly wrong with your child and justify a potent brain-chemistry altering drug.  These same techniques were used in the Bird Flu incident and much to the dismay of the drug companies who spent millions  developing a vaccine for it, the fear has died.  Now these companies have a product with big investment and no big customers to buy it.

Now comes the whole purpose of writing this post.  A couple of weeks ago it was reported that Baxter Pharmaceutical sent some common flu vaccine out to 18 countries.  One of them was the Czech Republic who tested the shot on ferrets.  All the ferrets died as a result of the inoculation.  Researchers confirmed that there was an unidentified viral strain in the shot.  It turns out is was the BIRD FLU virus and it was ALIVE! Can you imagine a company creating their own need by purposely infecting people with the disease that they happen to have a new blockbuster vaccine for?  I wonder if you are as sick to your stomach as I am about this.  Of course the very minimal information that has been released by the company states that there must have been some cross contamination, which could just be something that happens due to their “process”.  They also don’t feel compelled to address this issue and state that their process is a proprietary secret and therefore they will not disclose anything more about it.

Realize from a pure business stand point, this was probably looked at as great plan to make sure they would be able to sell some of the poison they have been producing.  Is should also be noted that in the 412 cases in the last 7 years 256 of those people died from it.  That is 62% mortality rate.  Can you imagine purposely infecting millions of people with a virus which can create that amount of devastation, all so you can recover some of the money you spent on research and development?  I have a better idea!  Don’t make a vaccine for a problem that is not real and if you do and it doesn’t work out, chalk it up to a bad business decision. Take your losses and move on.

If you paste this link you can read the actual article or google Baxter flu vaccine.

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WE ALL NEED TO PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE WE KNOW TO EXPOSE THE DISGUSTING DECEIT PRACTICED BY THE BELOVED DRUG COMPANIES.  IF WE WANT TO CHANGE A FAILING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE U.S. IT HAS TO START WITH US.

Yours in health,

Dr. Tim

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A question I feel everyone actually knows the answer to but doesn’t like to practice it.  IT’S YOU!  I had a discussion with a patient last week who was so intrenched into the medical system that had given up hope that he could ever be well again.  For the past 10 years he had been going to different doctors looking for answers.  He kept getting answers but unfortunately for him they were not the right ones.  He had been given 22 different medications over that time and when he started at our office he was on 9 different drugs.  He told me that the only good news he had after all that was that this drug regimen has made him feel the best he has in the last 10 years.  Mind you he was still suffering from many ailments but the symptoms were finally being somewhat controlled.

At first, he was very skeptical to think there could be a way for him to feel even better all while reducing his dependency on medication.  He was hesitant to make any changes because he was feeling better today than he had in a while.  So I asked him,  if he continues to take those medications, does he think the condition causing his symptoms is getting better or worse?  His answer was neither, he thought things would be stable.  I asked him if he had cancer, he took medicine to keep the symptoms at bay, would his cancer progress to a point of death or would the cancer stop growing?  He told me it would continue to grow!  Exactly!

People have to understand that treating the symptoms they are experiencing is not helping to rid them of the cause of their problem.  The problem, although not producing symptoms because of the drugs,  is still progressing.  It will progress to a point of organ or system failure which for way to many people today means a premature death.

Everyday we make decisions that are going to impact our health tomorrow and into the future.  We need to think, do I want my body to make and repair cells with nutrients I consumed at my favorite fastfood resturant or do I want it to build it with fresh lean meats, fruits and vegetables?  Hopefully you are leaning to the fresh foods.

When I look at the degrading health of the American people it really concerns me.  We supposedly live in the best, cutting edge technologically advanced country in the world but yet we have more people suffering today from needless health problems.  I know it is not always easy to make the right decision, but with such huge implications, we all need to take the time to learn what is health and how to I achieve and maintain it.

I would like to close today with an invitation.  We will be holding a Maximized Living Makeover on April 11th.  This is the answer to the questions we asked above.  Once we realize a problem, we need to put into place a plan to overcome it.  With our information, leadership and guidance you can accomplish your health goals.  It is time to make a change.  When people ask what it is we do in the office, I like to simply say, “we get sick people well.”  Call our office is getting well and maintaining health is important to you.  720-747-5333 for information.

Yours in Health,

Dr. Tim

Dr. Tim

Last night I was asked a question by a newer patient of mine.  She said, “What should I expect from being at your office?”  I told her that although that is unique to every patient that walks through our door, it is all based on basic principals of health and healing.  People everyday have different health issues that they deal with from physical pain, emotional trauma and stress to organ dysfunction, disease and premature death and all these are dealt with following the 5 essentials of Maximized Living.

What you should expect from receiving care at our office is your body performing at its absolute best.  I then asked her if she thought her body wanted to be healthy or a sick suffering organism taking many medications and literally dying prematurely.  She answered, “healthy.”  Earlier that day I found two great articles that I thought would answer her question.

The first was published in the Medical Times in 1921 by a doctor Henry Windsor, MD.  The purpose of the study to prove or disprove whether minor abnormal curvatures in the spine were able to compress the chord/nerves enough to cause visceral disease to the organs that were inervated by that nerves sympathetic distribution.  In laymans terms, can a misalignment of the spine, a subluxation, cause organ disease?

Dr. Windsor took 50 Cadavers and dissected them to determine which organs if any developed disease processes.  Upon examination he determined there to be 139 diseased organs in the 50 subjects.  Tracing the sympathetic nerve distribution he concluded that 139 out of 139 diseased organs came from the parts fo the spine that had abnormal curvature changing the neurology.  WOW a 100% finding!  People that’s more than just random correlation, that’s direct causation.  So could that abnormal curvature, subluxation or degenerated spinal area cause disease to any organ it inervates?  You bet and how often?  EVERY SINGLE TIME!

The next article I came across was published by the Texas Chiropractic Association in 1978.  It looked back at statistical data from the great flu epidemic in 1917-18.  They found that in Davenport Iowa, which was the fountain head of chiropractic,  that there were 4,953 cases of flu treated by 50 medical doctors with 274 reported deaths.  In the same period 150 chiropractors including students and staff at the Palmer School of Chiropractic treated 1,635 with only one death.  In the state of Iowa the medical community had a death to case ratio of 1 out of 15.  In the restof the state of Iowa those seeking chiropractic had a 1 out of 789 death to case ratio.  WOW!

In New York City, for ever 10,000 cases treated by medicine 950 deaths were reported.  In every 10,000 cases of pneumonia treated by medicine, 6,400 died.  That is a amazing 9.5% and 64% of people dieing respectively.  In the same epidemic under drugless methods 25 died of flu for every 10,000 and 100 died of pneumonia our of 10,000 for a total of .25% and 1% respectively.  You read that correctly!

So when asked about what role chiropractic should play in your life, its a matter of life or death to me.  You can question principals but you can not disprove them.  As these two articles show, without a proper functioning Nervous System, you will be susceptible to organ disease and premature death as well as death from communicable diseases like flu and pneumonia.  If you have not been checked to see how well your nervous system is functioning, how will you know healthy you really are?

If you live in the Denver Area, contact our office to find out.  If you live outside this area, go to MaximizedLiving.com to find a well trained Doctor of Chiropractic in you area.

Be Well,

Dr. Tim Cummins

Dr. Tim

My staff and I spent the weekend at a kid’s expo in downtown Denver. We had a good time talking with people and were able to really connect with some to lead them down a different path to better health and life.

I sometimes get a little overwhelmed at these events because you see these children and their parents suffering so much and most of the time needlessly. I had a specific child that at 6 years old was on multiple (6) medications. Two for asthma, two for allergies, one for ADD and one for depression. Could you imagine being clinically depressed at age 6? Did someone tell you that you couldn’t watch your favorite cartoon and that just pushed you over the edge? I hope you are thinking this is sick. To be further shocked, when I talked to the parents they were surprised that this was not “normal”. I told them unfortunately it is something that is becoming common but there is NO WAY this is normal. To my dismay, they chose to “take a card” and think about calling. I know when someone says this they are politely telling you, “I am not interested.” Now that child will grow up on who knows how many medications completely drugged out of her mind.

I had the opportunity to have a positive impact on another patient. I had a 7 year old with similar issues above minus the antidepressant. The mom was open to conversation and realized her situation should not be normal. I think what made her change her mind and schedule was a question I asked her. I asked, “What do you think the schools would be more upset with, a child who brings a weapon to school or a child who brings a bag of peanut dust and a fan?” She paused for a second, smiled and said probably the peanuts. I asked her why do you think our country is suffering so bad when it comes to healthy people including kids? She had no response. I pointed out to her that her lack of a response was one of the problems. People need to realize these things are not normal and if we continue to go down this path why do we think it is going to get better. Well for her and her son it is on Tuesday, the day they step foot into a Maximized Living office.

I often wonder if people in the US realize that the majority of the problems we are facing with our children today are very unique to our society. It is not often you hear of children taking guns to school and shooting fellow classmates and teachers in other countries. Nope, that is an American thing. There is obviously something in the water in the US that also makes our children unable to pay attention in school, the most depressed children in the world and the most obese. I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago on EQ and won’t rehash that here but encourage you to read or re-read that article which will also help explain some of the mental instabilities we are dealing with in our country.

So my final question to you. Is our gene pool just that lousy here in the US? Do our children really not have a chance at a long normal productive life or do we need to think about making some changes? I know the 2nd family I wrote about has taken the first step to completely changing their life for the better. My hope is that you will too. We all know families just like the ones I have written about today. They need your help to guide them and show them a better way. I have a hard time thinking that God has given up on us. Did he say, well those Americans they don’t deserve to live well anymore? No! Let’s take responsibility for our own health and start living the 5 Essentials of Maximized Living.

Be Blessed

Dr. Tim

Dr. Tim