Rochester Spine Care & Alternative Healing Center
493 37th St. NE
Rochester, Mn. 55906

Phone for appointments: (507) 281-4040

Conveniently located in the Domaille Buick Mazda mecadam acre
at the Corner of 37th St. NE and Broadway next to Energy Products
(fireplace shop) and The Mike Bush State Farm Insurance Office.

SARS ( Sudden Acute Respiratory  Syndrome ) as an Example of Natural Defenses YOU can Employ Against any Virus Attack:

The SARS "virus" is in my opinion very possibly an experiment in bio-weaponry which was half constructed and also was never supposed to be released. I've heard reports it has a surface of sticky fingers, with an inner shell to prevent drying, and a content of RNA from one of the nastier of the cold virus family RNA sets. Interesting that a Chinese Medical Professor was the first case. He then infected 7 other people at a hotel mostly by breathing, sneezing, and coughing in their vacinity. O.K? What is done is done, what is is what is.  This germ is sticky. It lives a long time on surfaces (maybe a month or more due to the thick small pox-like shell), and the inner core RNA can make humans very sick, it even kills people at times.

HOPE: #1: We do have some natural things which can make you resistant:

HOPE: #2: Also genetically (whether bio-weapon engineered or not) we have the news that this germ as of early April was mutating into a family with a spectrum of potentials.

Some of the family have the potential to be fast and vicious. Some of the family have the potential to be gentle and slow. The gentle members of the family should be favored when the disease reaches a dispersed human population (like the Midweat and Western USA. ). So the characteristics afore listed (above) may all change rather quickly as time passes.  Genetic rules: The "favoring" works like this, if a pathogen sickens and/or kills the infected victim very fast, and people are living shoulder to shoulder (Hong Kong, most large cities, soldiers in barracks, etc.) then the pathogen can spread just fine, so the nasty vicious varieties live, flourish,and are favored. In a dispersed human population (like the midwest/western USA ) however people may not come in contact for days or even weeks, so the fast nasty varieties of the disease cannot jump from one person to a second person before the disease kills the first person and thus the fast,nasty varieties of the disease self terminate. The slower more gentle varieties of the disease family are more likely to have a slow prodromal infectious phase with minimal symptoms and wait to be spread and thus are favored with survival in a dispersed population.  A gentler disease also can cause longer term illness since the immune fight may not be as intense, and thus care-givers may be exposed for longer periods of time further increasing chances that the pathogen will continue to thrive.  

The course of any virus whether bioweaponized or not should follow the genetic rules: Therefore in the midwest and especially in rural areas we can expect the pathogen to become less violently deadly, but also to develop a quiet "prodromal" phase with minimal symptoms but high contagion character during the "quiet" prodromal phase. From the present state of things in Hong Kong, Singapore, and China where infected (and contagious) people are obviously ill and can die in a matter of hours from the time of onset, we can expect infected people in the Midwest to be less obviously ill for days and days, but highly contagious, and only very rarely die from the illness.

NEWS FLASH 04/20/03 The World Health Organisation is already noting mutation of SARS into a quieter prodromal character and advising anyone with any of the following symptoms to stay home from work and avoid social activities to help stop the spread of the disease:

1. Tight chest, trouble breathing feelings.

2. Tiredness unexplained by loss of sleep or extra work.

3. Cough:

4. Nasal symptoms, dripping nose, sneezes:

5. Headache in a person who rarely or never has headaches.

6. Fever of 100.4:

7. Unexplained chills:

Now, 04/25/03 this is already quite a different story from the original World Health announcements in March 2003 that people who were infectious were only contagious when they had obvious symptoms of the full blown syndrome. The SARS is apparently already mutating toward slower sneakier, but also milder behaviour JUST because of the quarantines imposed by many Asian governments already.  Perhaps we should re-label the disease "MARS - SARS mixed pathogenic threat" already ( " Mildly to Moderately Acute Respiratory Syndrome").

However "less violent" with this germ may still be very very uncomfortable at the very least, CHINA NEWS IS STILL REPORTING THE PATIENTS NEED BED PANS THEY ARE SO WEAK THEY CANNOT WALK TO THE BATHROOMS, and ALSO possibly the less violent version will mutate into a long term chronic illness like hepatitis C or Chronic Fatigue syndrome, so natural defense is still the BEST idea. Here's an outline of WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF and your loved ones:

A. Chiropractic for highest nerve health:

B. Low fat diet:  Anti viral diet:

C. Echinacea angustofolia in the correct format with stronger format on hand as a back-up:

D. Elderberry in the correct format with stronger format (Original formula Sambucol with NO artificial sweetner) on-hand as a back-up:

E. Liver stimulation via acupuncture 1X/wk and milk thistle WITH deeper therapy as a back-up:

F. Golden seal herbal at the ready:

G. Conjugated Linoleic Acid 1,000 mg./day with 3,000 mg./day at the ready as back up.

H. Diet changes to eliminate environmental toxins, raise immune strength and minimize toxic liver loading.

I.  If you smoke you must do one of the following:  #1. Use the patch 8 hours a day.  #2. Or just quit .  #3. Or change to chew tobacco or nicotine gum.

DETAILS:

A. Chiropractic for highest nerve health: We call it the healing brain principle:

Chiropractic by clearing nerve interference allows the brain to find out through nerve signals that there is a problem when there is a problem.** The first thing most pathogens do is to release a nerve anesthetic effect, so the brain is unaware that an invasion has taken place. The pathogen can gain the upper hand pretty rapidly when the brain is unaware. Chiropractic is your best pathway to make sure the brain is clearly and well connected to every tissue of the body by clear NERVE ENERGY flows.

** Note: There is a principle of basic cell mediated immune response: Virus damaged cells release chemicals which alert the local tissue defenses that there is a problem: Many pathogens however moderate these basic chemical alerts with their own release of "no-alert" neutralizer chemicals. For a tough germ like SARS all defense mechanisms, and especially the sophisticated healing brain nerve defenses will be needed for best chance of a successful health oriented out-come.

B. Low fat diet. Anti virus diet: Fats and other factors in the diet can actually encourage virus infections.  Look at all the constantly ill children these days, ear infections, cold after cold, running noses constantly, Americans have very weak dietary defense knowledge.   A human needs two tablespoons of fat a day. You'll need coaching on this principle, since most Americans cannot even imagine a low fat diet but only think they know what a low fat diet really is like. Low fat keeps the liver load minimal and the lymph like water and freely flowing to wash away any invading pathogen as fast as possible. It also lets the white blood cells work better when low fat has made the blood a bit thin. (This is the "fatty swamp" verses the "clear stream" principle. A rich fatty diet causes the body fluids (lymph & blood) to be very vicous/thick. White blood cells cannot move around well to fight invaders in a thick swampy environment. For best defense you will need thin fluids derived from consistantly eating a low fat diet.)

There are also foods which actually throw immuno defense balance into disarray, you'll need to know what these are and avoid them completely for any chance of success.

C. Echinacea: This herb kills nothing, but it does moderate immune "attention" characteristics, so you do not waste too much energy fighting phantoms (allergies), and have most of your energy at the ready to fight real infection. You need the right format, part of the plant, extraction method, and species. You'll probably need coaching on this too, lots of junk on the average department store shelf.

D. Elderberry: This herbal beauty directly kills viruses, just like an antibiotic for bacteria, elderberry kills viruses, but there are dispersed natural and concentrated extracted formats. (Again) You need the right format, part of the plant, extraction method, and species. You'll probably need coaching on this too, since there is lots of junk on the average store shelf.

E. Liver stimulation: How? You'll need one to one personal coaching: There are easy methods with some efficacy, and not so convenient methods with tremendous power: It's an expert's arena.  Why? Well, the lungs are a back-up system for the liver. If toxins become overwhelming for the liver the body's auomatic reflexes can direct the toxins to the lungs where they are BREATHED OUT. This usually helpful reflex mechanism can back fire however since the breathed out toxins can irritate the lungs making them inflamed and congested and thus more subject to greater infection. Any doubts? Have a few alcoholic drinks and then go find a State Trooper to give you a breathalizer test. See?  It's not mystical, but simply the scientific physiology of toxin elimination: (Alcohol long touted as "an empty food" is treated by the liver as a toxic emergency, could it be that alcohol is actually a toxin? All I know is that the breathalizer test works indicating an emergency toxic route is being employed, (toxic by-products of alcohol metabolism actually breathed out from the lungs) just like a toxic route via the lungs would be employed for any toxic chemical which caused liver over-load, ( also historically M.D.'s back in the 1800's used a shot of whiskey as a test of liver function:)

F. Golden seal herbal at the ready: This herb is not for everyone since it straight up raises immune energy to a high pitch.  Questions about you and your intrinsic condition need to be answered first before diving right into a golden seal routine.  (professional history taking skills required).

G. Conjugated Linoleic Acid : Very very new research results make this supplement a "must have" in an anti SARS or anti MARS program. (Provided you are not allergic to it:)

H. Diet Changes: You'll need personal coaching in this esoteric arena. A change in PH is needed. If your PH is different from the average pizza and Mountain Dew general population, their variety of infection will find your system inhospitable. Also you very well may wonder what could be toxic in our foods, drinks, and general environment, on the other hand you may already be quite aware of the toxic categories. You and I will have to confer. As a natural healing doctor I'm probably aware of 99% of the toxic threats to health, so I'll take you along as far as your belief system will go. Usually elimination of the obvious sources of poison will suffice to raise immune strength mightily (but it is not simply a case of chemical toxins which kill immune health).

I. If you smoke:  #1. Use the patch 8 hours a day, with one cigarette in the morning ONLY.  #2. Or just quit except for one cigarette in the morning.  #3. Change to chew tobacco or nicotine gum except for one cigarette in the morning.  ODD ADVICE?  Not really.  Smoking irritates the lungs making them more subject to infection, however a smoker after six months has no more cilia.  These are the hair thin fibers which cleanse the lungs by moving fluids up and out.  So a former smoker completely quit actually is more subject to infections of the lungs because he or she has NO CILIA and NO SMOKER'S COUGH anymore.  The smoker's cough moves fluids out of the lungs as a substitute to some extent for the lost cilia flows.  Thus my advice is to retain JUST ONE morning cigarette and cough away once a day to help clear the lungs, but then minimize lung irritations by not smoking after that one cigarette to help defend against the SARS lung infection potential.  The "patch" is not totally harmless either since it tightens the blood vessels with nicotine release fairly constantly, whereas cigarette smokers only suffer transient tightening and loosening cycles through-out the day, so I'm against 24 hour patch use, give the vessels and heart a vacation time of at least 12 and preferably 18 hours each day by tearing off the patch early.  (Toss it too, a used patch is useless since the alcoholic medium which transports the nicotine quickly evaporates once the patch is removed.  And people that's about the best you can do  (with the rest of the defense program outlined above)  to defend against SARS if you smoke.

And finally let me stress the best kept secret of the natural healing arts:

The Best Kept Secret of the Natural Healing Arts: If the healing centers of the brain are fully and accurately aware of a problem, then the brain through the spine nerves directs corrective action to the problem part. But here's the deep secret principle: "Pain" is not a signal which triggers an alert status in the healing centers. Pain is a signal (or complex set of signals) which triggers the upper higher centers of the conscious mind area. The consciousness then can take mechanical action to protect the injured part, like not moving an injured shoulder for example. Conversely, the deep brain healing centers receive and transmit much more specific and sophisticated information than simple pain signals. Even if your spine is pain free Chiropractic therapy to clear out non-painful spine stress as a first therapy of choice is your best health pathway to make sure the deep healing defense centers of your brain are clearly and well connected to every tissue of the body by clear NERVE ENERGY flows so the healing brain principle can be fully enjoyed and your immune defenses kept at their best potential:

 Hope I can guide you to success soon.  Sincerely; John D. Reid D.C.   507-281-4040

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