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Ozone Power of Intention Part Two Aspirin and breast cancer Pharmaceutical companies affecting credible journals |
We are pleased to announce the addition of a new doctor to the practice.
Dr. Carrie Jardine joined the practice the beginning of June. We are excited about the fresh perspectives she will bring to the office. She has a Doctorate of Chiropractic from Logan College of Chiropractic, but she also has a degree in Human Biology and Chemistry and a degree in Communication, Public Relations, and Business, making her a very well-rounded person. With the addition of Dr. Jardine we hope to share, grow, and create positive business practices and continue to help people achieve the best health they can. We are also excited about the diversity in methods she will bring to the practice. Dr. Jardine will impress you with her warmth and friendliness. If you see her around the office make sure you introduce yourself. Dr. Jardine has been married to her soul mate for almost 17 years, and she has four children. She says she loves being a mom. Her
favorite techniques she uses as a health care giver are kinesiology,
sacral occipital, acupuncture, athletic injury rehabilitation, muscle
reactivation techniques, and postural analysis. Dr. Jardine's goal is
to help people recognize their potential. She believes that you need
your health to recognize that potential. She believes health is within
the grasp of every human being, and she coaches people to have that.
Like Dr. Olson, she believes in the total person approach to health.
The body will tell you what brings you health. As a health coach, she
can help you recognize what's working for you and what's not. It's then
up to you to choose. She believes in the power of people to influence
each other for good. Her passion in life and in her practice is to influence
people of this world to seek health and help them know how to choose
healthy lifestyles. Together, the possibility of a joyful world is a
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Dr. Rand Olson Aspirin and breast cancer Pharmaceutical companies affecting credible journals |
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The incredible power of Intention - Part Two
In the last newsletter I presented my theory about the power of intention.
In this part I will share with you how it works.
Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels, you give freely, and you count sacrifice a bargain. (Henry B. Eyring) The intention must be clean. With a clean intention, we walk beyond the notion of right doing and wrong doing. We see all things as clean. When we see all things as clean we truly cannot find that which is unclean. I also believe that intention holds the key to healing. I had a patient the other day tell me that she had to get better. "Why?" I asked. She gave several reasons like, "My grandchildren need me." She really isn't the person to decide if they would benefit more by her being there or not being there. I encouraged a deeper reason. She is still trying to come up with a deeply compelling reason to overcome her disease and expand her health to broader effect. If we are to heal we must follow certain criteria: 1. We must change our intention to a higher level of being. 2. When our intention is changed it must change our behavior toward a more virtuous style of living. 3. As our intention and behavior change so must our desires and goals. Our "Purpose" must become clear. 4. We must do our best to live up to our new awareness and understanding. Rarely does this path lead to greater comfort in life. It is usually a distinctly uncomfortable and difficult path. Seeking a higher spiritual awareness than you currently serve requires you not seek a comfortable spiritual path. Look for three things: 1. Look for greater goodness in the path you choose than you now experience. 2. Look for a path that will bring peace to your mind and your heart. 3. Look for a path that is verifiable. Every path that leads you to your highest potential will be divinely verifiable. Start looking for your intention. Each negative emotion will reveal it too you if you let it. Emotions are great indicators of the true feelings we have inside. They are the great revealers of our intention. The grandmother who tried to find a reason to live by saying her grandchildren needed her was really saying, " I need my grandchildren to need me. I want to live long enough to know that they really love me." Emotions can always point us to our true intentions, good or bad. If we use good nutrition to hide from emotional dishonesty we will not gain significantly from it. Many people embark on a mission to improve their nutrition with the hope that it will help them heal from their ailments. Weight loss is a coveted accomplishment. But few look deeper at the real issues. Most disease, according to the ancient Chinese tradition, and I have found this to be true also, is caused by emotion. By seeking to heal our body by changing our diet without addressing our emotional state is a bit of self deception. If you add nutritional changes as a part of your plan of self-improvement along with emotional maturation and spiritual awakening you will gain some serious ground on your physical healing. If we seek emotional maturity to hide from spiritual potential we again mislead ourselves. Most of us go through life trying to rid ourselves of our greatest fears and pains rather than seeking our highest potential. It is my experience, like Nelson Mandela stated, "Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us." It is when we start to seek our true potential and abundance that life really begins. Let this be your intention and your life will change over night, your health will improve and your clarity of spiritual vision will sharpen dramatically. You will start to see things "as they really are and as they really will be."
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A California teacher study recently documented that taking aspirin or
ibuprofen daily for at least five years may increase women's risk of breast
cancer. However, the research team said it was not certain if the risk
is merely "casual," because its massive study found no increased risk
of breast cancer for shorter-term, less frequent use of the non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs. For women who were long term users
of aspirin were 80 percent more likely to develop breast cancer while
women who took ibuprofen were 50 percent more likely to develop the disease.
The team reported results of its study of 114,460 California teachers
in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Researchers were baffled
by the results. In fact, the lead researcher, Sarah Marshall of the University
of Southern California, said she had expected the NSAIDs to reduce the
risk of breast cancer. Caution: if you are using NSAIDs daily it is time
to think of an alternative. Remember Aspirin alone is ineffective on all
claims. It does not reduce the risk of heart attacks or strokes. There
has never been a conclusive study to prove any statistical benefit for
taking aspirin. It is the Magnesium in Bufferin that provides minimal
benefit against fatal heart attacks, not aspirin alone. Aspirin as a benefit
is a myth. Talk to Dr. Olson about alternatives to this pain reliever.
Aspirin attempts to mask pain or keep sickness away. True health is attracted
by a desire to be healthy not by a desire to avoid sickness.
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"Medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical
companies," argues Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ and now Chief
Executive of UnitedHealth Europe, in a provocative essay published in
the open access international health journal PLoS Medicine (www.plosmedicine.org).
The most conspicuous example of medical journals' dependence on the pharmaceutical
industry is the substantial income from drug advertisements, but Smith
believes that this is "the least corrupting form of dependence," since
the ads are "there for all to see and criticize." He believes the much
bigger problem lies with journals publishing clinical trials funded by
industry. "For a drug company a favourable trial is worth thousands of
pages of advertising, which is why a company will sometimes spend upwards
of a million dollars on reprints of the trial for worldwide distribution."
Unlike ads, readers see these trials as the highest form of evidence,
says Smith. This is great from the perspective of the companies, but bad
for patients. These studies lower the credibility of the medical journals
because these trials funded by the companies rarely produce results that
are unfavourable to the companies' products. Smith cites evidence from
a total of 86 studies that the results of a trial are influenced by who
funds it. "The evidence is strong that companies are getting the results
they want, and this is especially worrying because between two thirds
and three quarters of the trials published in the major journals are funded
by the industry." The money the journals get from these companies advertising
can make or break them, and unfortunately the journal must often choose
the money over ethics. How can the cycle of dependency between journals
and drug companies be broken? "Firstly, we need more public funding of
trials, particularly of large head to head trials of all the treatments
available for treating a condition." "Secondly, journals should perhaps
stop publishing trials. Instead, the protocols and the results should
be made available on regulated websites. Only such a radical step would,
I think, stop journals being beholden to companies. Instead of publishing
trials journals could concentrate on critically describing them."
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