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Dr. Andy SommerDr. Andy Sommer

The Missing Link for your Health

U.S HEALTH CARE SYSTEMU.S HEALTH CARE SYSTEMMost extensive health care system in the world

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Best Medical SchoolsBest Medical Schools

Best HospitalsBest Hospitals

Leads the world in technology Leads the world in technology and researchand research

U.S spends more than any country in U.S spends more than any country in the world (2.8 trillion dollars last year) on health the world (2.8 trillion dollars last year) on health

carecare.

What are we getting for 2.8 trillion What are we getting for 2.8 trillion dollars?dollars?

Emergency Care

Trauma Care

Crisis Care

When it comes to these types of conditions the U.S Health Care System is the best in

the world. But……………………

Crisis Care = 1% of Crisis Care = 1% of the budgetthe budget

What about the remaining 99%?

According to the World Health Organization, According to the World Health Organization, The U.S ranks 79The U.S ranks 79thth out of 81 industrialized out of 81 industrialized nations according to its “total health indexnations according to its “total health index”

Heart Disease

Cancer

Diabetes

Infectious Disease

Autoimmune Conditions

Iatrogenic

What has gone wrong? Why are U.S health What has gone wrong? Why are U.S health care costs rising faster than any other care costs rising faster than any other

country even as our overall health declinescountry even as our overall health declines?

The problem is our “model of health care” in other words our basic beliefs about what

health is and what we need to do to achieve it.

• Current belief: Feel fine = “I’m fine!”

• As a result... The MAIN objective becomes to eliminate the symptoms

• What is the problem with this model and its objective?

There is not a single medical or science textbook There is not a single medical or science textbook or encyclopedia in the world that defines health or encyclopedia in the world that defines health

based on symptoms or how a person feels.based on symptoms or how a person feels.

HEALTH: a condition of optimum physical, social, mental and spiritual well being - not merely the absence of disease or infirmities'.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary

HEALTH: the state of being sound in body or mind', and not simply 'freedom from physical disease and pain'

Webster's Medical Dictionary

Health = Optimal Function x Innate Intelligence Health = Optimal Function x Innate Intelligence (variable) (constant) (variable) (constant)

SYMPTOMS AND HEALINGSYMPTOMS AND HEALING

• Cough

• Sneeze

• Fever

• Vomiting

• Pain

• Diarrhea

SYMPTOMS AND HEALINGSYMPTOMS AND HEALING

The U.S is the most medicated country in the

world• Americans consume 68% of all of

the drugs in the world.

• Half of all Americans take at least one prescription drug on a daily basis.

• In constant dollars, Americans spent more than $300 billion on prescription drugs last year, up from $104.6 billion in 1999.

The Pharmaceutical Industry is the most The Pharmaceutical Industry is the most profitable industry in the world and therefore profitable industry in the world and therefore directly influences and affects U.S (and directly influences and affects U.S (and global) health care policyglobal) health care policy

• 80% of the average pharmaceutical industry’s budget is used for marketing.

• The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses combined. ($33.7 billion).

New England Journal of Medicine.

Does “Big Business” influence health care policy?

“Every function of the human body is under the

control of the nervous system. Its function is to coordinate all the other

organs and structures and to relate the individual to

their environment”.

GRAYS ANATOMYGRAYS ANATOMY

“To understand health is to To understand health is to understand the central role of the understand the central role of the

brain and nervous system in brain and nervous system in maintaining the resistance of the maintaining the resistance of the body. Health maintenance is the body. Health maintenance is the primaryprimary function of the brain, not function of the brain, not educational thoughts, language, educational thoughts, language,

poetry and other functions usually poetry and other functions usually associated with the brainassociated with the brain.” .”

Robert Ornstein, PhD & David Sobel, MDRobert Ornstein, PhD & David Sobel, MDThe Healing BrainThe Healing Brain

“The quality of healing is directly proportional to the functional capability of the central nervous system to send and

receive nerve messages.”

Journal of Neurological Science

The central nervous system

is protected by the hardest bones in the

body-the skull and spinal vertebra

VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATIONS

SUBLUXATIONS AND SUBLUXATIONS AND NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTIONNEUROLOGICAL FUNCTION

When the Central Nervous System cannot communicate at an optimal level with the rest of the body because of Vertebral Subluxations, the overall function and healing

potential are reduced

ARE SUBLUXATIONS EVIDENCED BY ARE SUBLUXATIONS EVIDENCED BY PAIN OR SYMPTOMS?PAIN OR SYMPTOMS?

CAUSES OF SUBLUXATIONSCAUSES OF SUBLUXATIONS

“Pathological changes have been observed at the cellular level after experimental compression of neural structures. These

include Wallerian degeneration, dystrophic axons and occasional loss of myleniated nerve fibers.”

 R. B. Delamarter, MD

Spine

Subluxations, Subluxations, Posture & HealthPosture & Health

Homeostasis and nervous Homeostasis and nervous system function are system function are

ultimately connected with ultimately connected with posture.posture.

Abnormal posture is Abnormal posture is evident in patients evident in patients

with with chronic and stress-chronic and stress-

related illnessesrelated illnesses.

PURPOSE OF CHIROPRACTICPURPOSE OF CHIROPRACTIC

To detect and correct Vertebral Subluxations by

physically adjusting the spine.

THE CHIROPRACTIC LIFESTYLETHE CHIROPRACTIC LIFESTYLE

Your choice to take part in the

chiropractic lifestyle is a step in the right direction toward

achieving a happier, healthier life for you

and your family!

Dr. Andrew Sommer

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