The “O”-Zone Life is a play: Act Don’t React
To act or to react, that is the question. Do we react to situations, circumstances, and others’ attitudes, or do we choose to act out of our highest self at all times? What is the difference? To find out the vital difference and how acting and reacting affect your health click here.

Life Lessons from an Unlikely Source
Sometimes we can learn a lot from unlikely people and circumstances. Some of life’s best lessons are learned unexpectedly. We have to be willing to see life's lessons in whatever form they come. Beyond seeing a lesson, it is important to apply that lesson to your life. To read a great example of an unlikely life lesson click here.

Aspirin Effectiveness May Wear Off
If you are one of the 26 million Americans are taking a daily aspirin or know someone who is, this article is for you. The March 17, 2004 Journal of the American College of Cardiology reports that over time, aspirin taken daily to prevent blood clotting loses its effectiveness. Click here to read on.

Top Health Myths
A continuation of our top health myths summer series. Myth Two: Milk It Does a Body Good. Find out why milk isn't the perfect drink, how it doesn't do the body good anymore, and what beneficial substitutes are available.

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Important Information
Dr. Olson will be headed for his annual backpacking trip this month. The office will close early on Wednesday, July 28 and will reopen for normal hours on Monday, August 8. Make sure to get your herb or supplement order in by July 21, so we can have set you to stay on your treatment plan while we are out of the office.

Dr. A. Rand Olson
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The “O”-Zone Life is a play: Act Don’t React
To act or to react, that is the question. Well, it isn’t what Shakespeare said, but it is what he should have said. Do we react to situations, circumstances, and others’ attitudes, or do we choose to act out of our highest self at all times? What is the difference? By reacting we are giving others power over us. We are judging their attitudes, motives, and reasons for their behavior, and then reacting based on our judgment of their motives. If we choose to act, we don’t judge, we just act out of our most virtuous capacity. Those who act develop the ability to inspire. Those who react can only conspire. Inspiration comes from above and conspiracy comes from within. Inspiration is the allowance of a higher power to work in and through you. Conspiracy is the denial of a higher power and the insistence that your desires are supreme. If you catch yourself saying something like: “They made me mad. Or, I can’t handle my child when they do that. Or, my boss is intolerable.” Realize you are trying to conspire a way to control a situation, person, or circumstance. Just be the best you can be, act, stay in inspiration, not conspiracy, and your stress levels will drop. Your blood pressure will even out, blood sugar will remain even, stress hormones will stop producing fat, and you will stop craving food to help nurture you in stress.

To act is to engender healthy behaviors, to react is to be motivated by a dis-ease or symptoms. If dis-ease or symptoms is your motivation, true health becomes unattainable. Focus on health; act and your life will be placed in your control and health will be within your grasp once again.

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Life Lessons from an Unlikely Source
Sometimes we can learn a lot from unlikely people and circumstances. Some of life’s best lessons are learned unexpectedly. We have to be willing to see the reality of the lesson in every circumstance. Amazingly we can learn a few lessons from animals, too.

One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horrible. Then, to everyone’s amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped right over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up!

Aspirin Effectiveness May Wear Off
The March 17, 2004 Journal of the American College of Cardiology reports that over time, aspirin taken daily to prevent blood clotting loses its effectiveness. Previous research has indicated that aspirin’s clinical efficacy decreases over a two-year period. This study, done at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy also found similar results after monitoring blood samples from 150 patients for two years after they started aspirin therapy. At the beginning of treatment, a maximum of 88% of patients platelets could be made to clump together. While aspirin decreased that number to 38% after two months, the clumping gradually increased back up to 62% after 24 months.
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The practice of using aspirin for people with cardiac arrhythmias, artificial heart valve, high blood pressure, clogged arteries, and just about anyone who has had a heart attack has really caught on. Today 26 million Americans are taking a daily aspirin!

Previous research has also shown that people taking an aspirin a day suffer from a higher incidence of stroke and kidney disease than those who don’t take a daily aspirin.

If you are one of the millions taking an aspirin a day it is important to remember: Aspirin is not a wonder drug or a cure-all. Like most medicines its use is limited and should only be used for what it is intended. Drugs like aspirin can and will lose their effectiveness when used in excess. In fact, the practice itself has been debunked in Europe, as reported in medical journals there, yet it continues here as a routine practice. It can be a life long drug debility for unsuspecting patients.

Aspirin has a dangerous side effect of internal bleeding. There are some natural products that will help reduce platelet aggregation, the main reason for prescribing aspirin. These products are cod liver oil and whole phytonutrient vitamins B and E. They work like a low dose aspirin without the risk. For natural alternatives with the benefits but not he side effects of aspirin, give us a call.

You can view more aspirin statistics at the following link. Aspirin

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Top Health Myths
A continuation of our top health myths summer series.

Myth Two: Milk It Does a Body Good
Commercial pasteurized milk is not a health food and should be avoided. It is primarily the pasteurization process combined with the source of largely unhealthy cows that is the problem. When milk is pasteurized the structure of the milk protein changes (denaturization) into something far less healthy. It destroys some of milk’s valuable nutrition, including almost all vitamin D, half of all vitamin C, and half to three-quarter of vitamin B complex. The essential enzymes and growth factors destroyed during pasteurization are irreplaceable, unlike vitamin A and D. For example, phosphatase enzyme in milk is necessary for the absorption of calcium. Pasteurization destroys this enzyme, rendering pasteurized milk a poor source of calcium that can be utilized by the body. Other enzymes destroyed include lactase for assimilation of lactose and galactase for the assimilation of galactose. Milk devoid of such enzymes is much more difficult to digest and acts as a stressor on our body.

Then, of course there is the issue of the hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides and the fact that nearly all commercial dairy cows are raised on grains, not grass. Grain fed cows create omega 6-fats, an excess of this type of fat is a major cause for poor health. It has been linked to heart disease and other risks. Grass fed cows create healthy omega 3-fats. It is important to get a balance of omega 3 and omega 6 fats, but the typical American diet gets over 10 times too much of omega 6-fats. Omega 3 fats help feed your brain and your cells. They also increase your energy level and ability to concentrate. The research suggests that switching to grass-fed products may reduce the risk of a number of diseases, including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

Raw milk is healthier. This is unpasteurized milk. Pasteurization was a necessity of the past because of poor sanitation. Times have changed and modern stainless steel tanks, milking machines, refrigerated trucks and inspection methods make pasteurization less needed for public protection.

Cultured raw milk products like yogurt and kefir are generally good for our digestive tract and our over all health. Raw milk can be obtained through private dairies and kefir is available at health food stores.

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Dr. A. Rand Olson
Mon. 8:00-12 & 2:00 – 6:00/ Tues. 2:00 – 7:00/ Wed. 8:00 – 12:00 & 2:00-6:00/
Fri. 7:00 – 12:00 & 1:00 – 5:00
636-227-6971
Visit our web site at: www.healingsense.net