Holistic Cancer Therapies and Clinics

What got me interested in holistic healing originally was when my grandmother was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer. I was 13 years old and she was told by medical doctors that she had six months to live and that a $100,000 bone marrow transplant was her only chance. She told them to forget it and went down to the Gerson clinic in Tiajuana, Mexico in search of complementary alternative therapies for cancer. She was placed on a rigorous diet of organic foods and fresh juices. They had her doing five coffee enemas per day to detoxify the liver etc.  She returned to her home and continued the regimen that she had learned from the Gerson clinic.  Within seven months her tests revealed no signs of cancer.

What struck me was that her medical doctors had no interest in knowing what she had done to get well.  That fact shattered my previously positive image of the medical establishment.  I realized that most doctors are not as open minded and curious to learn how to help people as I once believed.  I also saw that while they have brilliant methods for saving lives in emergency situations, they don’t really know that much about healing people with chronic illness.

I learned later that clinics like Gerson and Hoxsey were operating in Mexico because the US medical association had managed to have them banned from this country.  These clinics had become a serious threat to the medical cancer business….so much for the free-market.  Recently I became aware that, despite their poor success rates, it is actually illegal for a medical doctor to recommend anything other than chemo and radiation for their cancer patients and could lose their license if they recommended any complementary alternative therapies for cancer.

In the 1980’s, reporter and medical doctor Nicolas Gonzales investigated a dentist in Texas, Dr. William Kelly, who was claiming to be curing pancreatic as well as other forms of cancer.  At the time, the medical profession was succeeding with 0% of their pancreatic cancer patients, who were dying an average of eight weeks after diagnosis.  Dr. Gonzales expected to quickly expose the sham and report it.  He ended up studying the methods of Dr. Kelly for years and was so impressed and inspired with his work that he soon took over his practice.  Gonzales reported on the successes he had observed and recommended that the medical research centers study the methods employed by Dr. Kelly, which, of course, they ignored. Dr. Kelly was recommending a strict dietary regimen, pancreatic enzymes, coffee enemas, chiropractic care and emotional healing/prayer.

At my Santa Barbara chiropractic clinic I have available many natural remedies that have been used successfully to treat people with cancer. I use kinesiology/muscle testing to determine which one’s would be best for your condition and to determine ideal dosages.  In future blogs we will discuss other natural ‘cancer cures’ which have stood the test of time and are still in practice decades later.  As always, you are welcome to come for a free evaluation.

Alternative Treatment Cancer

As Dean Black says about the ‘War on Cancer’, the body is not some battleground that we should declare war on with toxic chemicals (chemotherapy), it is a garden that needs adequate nutrients, sunlight and water. When one is looking for an alternative treatment for cancer, complementary to, or in place of, the realm of western allopathic medicine, there are hundreds of options. It can be a very confusing process, especially when one is facing the consequences of making the wrong choices.

Most oncologists will say that chemotherapy and radiation are the only options and that nothing else has any merit. However, when you read John Robbins’ Reclaiming Our Health, he explains how 75% of people in the field of oncology reported that they would not submit to chemo and radiation if they or someone in their family had cancer due to its “ineffectiveness and unacceptable toxicity”. Also, in the past 40 years, since the “war on cancer” was declared and the US government pledged to give tens of billions annually in cancer research money, the rates of cancer have risen from 18% to 40%! Robbins explains that when oncologists talk about their treatments having, say, “a 75% response rate”, they don’t mean that 75% of the people are cured and go on to live a long and healthy life….they mean that the tumor shrunk (even if the patient may have died). They speak of a “success” as someone who lives for at least five years after diagnosis.

So given this track record, and the fact that chemo makes some people so sick that they view death as a blessing, reasonable minds look for other options. Passive, victim-minded people with cancer curse their bad luck and look to doctors to cure them. Intelligent minds ask ‘how did I get this illness’, ‘how have I made myself so toxic that my immune system is failing’ and ‘what emotional pain am I still carrying that has led my health to decline’? Is there an alternative treatment cancer? Responsible people view cancer as a wake up call to deal with the unhealthy habits and patterns they have been ignoring or not known how to repair. And they look for holistic doctors that will assist them in the emotional healing process (as well as to cleanse the body of impurities and provide the proper nutrition for the body to repair itself).

At the Santa Barbara holistic chiropractic clinic we use clinical kinesiology, and a system I developed called Quantum Chiropractic, to assess the body’s physical and emotional needs and determine the optimal modalities to correct these imbalances. We offer a very responsible alternative treatment to cancer. People are amazed by how quickly they get well when they are diagnosed and treated correctly.

If you or anyone you know is faced with cancer and want alternative treatment, or are just looking for a chiropractor that does more than just pop your bones, please call for a free evaluation.

Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on curing cancer through chemo, surgery, radiation and genetic manipulation, cancer is still the number one killer in America. Having surpassed heart disease a few years back, cancer is a sign of the general poor health of our culture. And instead of encouraging the many promising holistic methods for treating this deadly affliction, the AMA has done everything in its great power to destroy and blacklist any modality that does not conform to the Western disease-care model (despite its dismal success rate).

Before we explore the nutritional and herbal cancer treatments, let’s look at what cancer is and why people may get this disease. There are obviously many forms of cancer–leukemia (involving blood cells), bone cancers, cancers of the various organs etc.  But in all cases, the biological purpose of this disease is to return unhealthy tissue back to the soil. The cells become damaged or toxic from excessive carcinogens–solar radiation, chemicals, pollution–and if the immune system is over-burdened from stress or unhealthy lifestyle, cancer can over-run the weakened body.

Much attention has been given to the fact that the rates of cancer are dramatically higher among people who have lost a loved one within the previous year. These studies show the role emotional distress has on weakening one’s immune system and leaving one susceptible to cancer. Conversely, Norman Cousins became famous for curing himself of a deadly disease by simply laughing. When he learned he was dying, he got all the classic comedy movies and laughed himself back to health. This example shows the incredible power the mind has to effect our health.

In the next blog I will discuss some of the most exciting breakthroughs that are coming out not only for treating cancer but also for maintaining overall good health that I use in my Santa Barbara chiropractic clinic.

Natural Childbirth, Strong Immune System

A strong immune system starts at birth, and even before. I preach a very simple principle which is this:  the further you get from living a natural lifestyle, the more out of balance you become and the more likely you are to develop health problems. Nature has figured out many things about how to live. It has figured out how to create sex drive so that a child is conceived. It gives a woman intuitive wisdom about how to give birth. And It has created the most perfect food for the infant—human milk. This milk contains not only the nutrients needed for the baby’s development but also the immune factors needed to protect from disease.

Why has medicine gone and tampered with every aspect of what should be a natural process. Child birth is not an illness! The death rates from home births are lower than from hospital births. People in out culture have lost touch with their instincts and most women would rather not experience the pain of childbirth. Medicine comes in and says, ‘we will make sure you feel no pain’. Unfortunately, studies have shows that the pain killers that women take for labor pains make the child ‘drunk’ and interrupt the bonding between mother and child that happens when childbirth is experienced without the numbing effects of drugs.

And then milk formulas came along so that mothers can avoid the inconvenience of nursing. All of this compromises the child’s immunity as well as their emotional development. The emotional effects of a long bonding process with mom through nursing may have an even larger immune benefit than the nutritional aspect of drinking nature’s formula. And thus begins the departure from Nature and living by natural principles.

As has become well known by now is the often horrendous consequences of vaccination. These are destroying children’s immune systems with the mercury and additives in these cocktails. Vaccination makes no sense and is not backed with solid science. Why take a vaccination for polio and small pox which no longer exist? Why take a shot for chicken pox which is a harmless four day childhood illness that you get only once? Why get a tetanus shot after stepping on a rusty nail? The nail has a 1 in 1000 chance of having tetanus. What makes anyone think that the sensible treatment for this is to give you a shot which has a 100% chance of having tetanus after the fact? Why give a newborn a Hepatitis B vaccine when Hep B is a disease of intravenous drug users? How hard can an infant party? Why get an MMR vaccine when the autism rate has skyrocketed since the MMR came out?

In my office I check nursing mothers, through muscle testing (kinesiology), for the foods to which their baby is allergic. By the mother avoiding these foods the baby will continue nursing usually for a long time.  Call for a complementary evaluation in my Santa Barbara holistic chiropractic office located in one of Santa Barbara’s most beautiful historic Victorian mansions.

In the next blog I’ll discuss maintaining a strong immune system through childhood.

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Strong Immunity Through Holistic Chiropractic

Few people know that there actually is no such ‘thing’ as the immune system. Unlike other systems, which are comprised of specific organs and clearly defined anatomical structures, the entire body participates in and supports our immunity. All immune cells originate from stem cells in our bone marrow. Our blood stream contains millions of circulating white blood cell which protect us from potentially harmful bacteria and viruses. Other cellular guardians monitor our DNA and splice out mutations from carcinogenic substances that invade our genetic code and can potentially cause cancer.

Few people realize how vital proper spinal alignment is to maintaining strong immunity. The spine houses and protects the spinal cord, which delivers communication between the brain and the body. Every function of the body depends on these nerve transmissions. When the spine is out of alignment, from sports, accidents, poor posture, and even sleeping on a bad mattress, the vertebrae can touch the delicate nerves and interfere with their electrical signals. Seeing a holistic chiropractor for monthly maintenance, even when one is not in pain, is a great way to ensure your body is functioning optimally.

The intestines also play a large role in our immune system. Peyer’s Patches, located in the walls of the small intestines, are lymphoid follicles that destroy bacteria, preventing them from entering the bloodstream. They also generate memory lymphocytes for long term immunity. Maintaining a healthy intestinal tract through proper nutrition, hydration and using probiotics to counter yeast overgrowth is therefore a good way to support your overall health.

There are also powerful herbs, both American and Chinese, that assist immunity through detoxification, lymph drainage and strengthening our adrenal glands. In the 1920’s a nurse from Canada, nurse Caisse, was given a formula to help her cure her own cancer. It was successful and she went on to help thousands of other cancer patients, including JFK’s personal physician who was struck with intestinal cancer. Her formula was named Essiac (her name spelled backwards) and she kept the formula a secret until just before her death in 1980. The ingredients are very powerful for detoxifying the body and I find it effective for many of my non-cancer patients as well.

In my next blog I will share several other valuable tools for strengthening our immune system naturally. And as always feel free to call for a complementary evaluation in my Santa Barbara holistic chiropractic office.

Lose Weight the Holistic Way

Weight loss has been the hottest topic in America for years now. Thousands of books have been written about it. The rates of obesity in the US have gone up consistently for the past three decades and it has become the most significant health care issue of our times. As everyone now knows, the big businesses like Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers get quick results but when researchers check back two years later, the improvements only last in about 5% of the cases. Why is this? Perhaps it’s because the underlying emotional issues were never addressed.

People maintain the weight with which they are “comfortable”. When people have highly stressful lives, unresolved abuse issues, self-esteem problems, or have suffered trauma and live in chronic pain, they resort to food (or alcohol, drugs, sex, video games etc.) for temporary comfort. The choice is unconscious and therefore, over time, people revert back to old habits unless the underlying factors are addressed and new habits are formed. Brain expert Daniel Amen says it takes thirty days for the brain to form a new habit.

Self destructive behavior is a sign of unresolved emotional conflict. Why else would a person engage in an activity which is not life-enhancing. No other species eats in a way that is harmful to itself. You don’t see a horse (see horse sense) eating cake and ice cream on its birthday. No other animal is so silly/stupid/ misguided (you pick the term). This is because no other species has free will. Other creatures are guided solely by the principles of Nature. We too are guided by the Nature principle but we struggle with a second drive, free will, which gives us the ability to override Nature in favor of the pleasure principle. Nature always seeks ‘Balance’. The road back to health and balance is one of re-connecting with Nature and using our free choice to align our actions with Her.

When we align with Nature we ‘tune in’ to our intuitive wisdom and do things that promote life. These are things like eating in a way that makes the body feel good (not for short term pleasure), getting plenty of rest, living in a safe and healthy environment, earning a living in a way that is enjoyable and allows us to be creative and feel appreciated. These ideas are obvious to most but why can’t people simply follow through? Underlying emotional conflict and immature strategies that we have adopted to survive must be resolved and potentialized in order for us to function more fully. Over the past twenty years I have been studying and developing techniques to unravel the core emotional and spiritual challenges that keep people from accessing their full potential to be healthy, happy, and successful individuals on every level. The goal is to free people up psychologically to first know what they want (most people don’t really know) and then create it and enjoy it.

At the Santa Barbara holistic chiropractic office we work on physical, chemical and emotional issues. We can ask your body to prioritize the most significant problem, using a unique manual muscle testing technology, so your body begins to transform naturally from the inside out. At the chemical level, when people become obese, the fat, which manufactures excessive estrogen, makes it very hard to lose weight. Using Clinical Kinesiology we can evaluate your hormonal state and balance your pituitary-thyroid-adrenal axis and normalize the endocrine system. This makes weight loss possible. Structurally, the spine houses the central nervous system which controls every function in the body. When the vertebrae are misaligned it can irritate delicate nerves, cause pain, and interfere with the organs and glands, keeping them from functioning efficiently. I have developed breakthrough methods for correcting structural distortion patterns and resolving chronic spinal pain.

Come in for a complementary evaluation in my chiropractic office, located in one of Santa Barbara’s most beautiful historic Victorian mansions.

To your health,

Hesu Whitten DC

(805)962-8548

While many cases of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) can be treated quickly, others are more insidious. These more complex cases fall into five major categories:

1) Dietary

2) Toxicity

3) Infections

4) Hormonal

5) Emotional or Stress related

At the Santa Barbara Holistic Chiropractic Clinic, we have sophisticated techniques for determining the root cause of most cases of CFS. See also Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Treatment

One case of chronic fatigue that I could not figure out was a woman who was suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning that was emanating from her furnace. The furnace repair guy cured her! Other rare environmental causes of CFS and fibromyalgia that I’ve seen are asbestosis, lead poisoning and poor sleep caused by electromagnetic stress caused by an electric blanket.

Diet can play a large role in chronic fatigue. The most common issue is consuming foods without any nutritional value. As a result, these people are overfed and under-nourished. Many people are intolerant to gluten, dairy and corn and don’t know it. However, the gut inflammation often takes time to heal even after one stops eating the problem foods. Other common dietary triggers are citrus, nuts, nightshades, sugar, artificial sweeteners, colorings and preservatives.

As far as toxicity, I see a lot of mercury poisoning from dental fillings and aluminum toxicity from cheap pots and pans, deodorant and toothpaste. As for infectious sources, there are viruses like Ebstein-Barr, hepatitis, Lymes disease, household mold and fungal causes like candida. These are extremely common causes of fatigue.

Hormonal and stress related factors also contribute to the sleep crisis we see in America today. This is obviously a very complex topic that could be the subject of several books, but it is what we focus on at our holistic chiropractic center … let us know if we can help!

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Healing from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a diagnosis, like Fibromyalgia, that Western medicine has no idea how to treat. There are no diagnostic tests that reveal any problems but the sufferer just feels lousy and exhausted. These are the kinds of cases that acupuncturists, holistic chiropractors, and naturopaths love to treat because we usually get very good results and the patients get their life back.

Depending on the causes, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome treatment can be easy or quite complex. The following are causes that can be resolved fairly quickly:

Dehydration, food allergies, electromagnetic stress, poor diet, sleep issues, nutritional deficiencies, and spinal misalignment resulting in pinched nerves. When properly diagnosed through kinesiology or Eastern pulse or tongue diagnosis, these problems can be brought into balance within a very short period of time.

Electromagnetic stress can be a result of electrical wires that are too close to the bed or being on the computer for many hours per day. The simplest solution is to get a grounding pad for the bed or computer chair. This conductive pad plugs into the third prong of an electrical outlet, which connects to the building’s ground rod. These can be purchased inexpensively through The Healing Place.

Dehydration is not simply a matter of needing to drink more water. The body can only absorb 4 oz. of water into the cells every half hour. This means that if you drink a lot of water all at once you only get the benefit of 4 oz. and the rest just washes through you. The cells are like an ice tray; it needs to be filled slowly. So we must develop the habit of carrying a water bottle with us and taking sips every so often. The other cautionary note has to do with the kind of water bottle we use. The soft plastic, as most of us know, leaches plastic into the water and causes excess synthetic estrogen in the body. This causes all kinds of problems in the long run. Ideally our water bottle should be glass or stainless steel (be ware of the stainless steel bottles with Teflon coating).

The other issues of allergies, nutritional deficiencies, diet and spinal misalignment can be tested and treated through a holistic chiropractor such as myself.

In the next blog I will discuss the more difficult cases.

Beyond Applied Kinesiology

What distinguished the more advanced chiropractic kinesiology techniques developed in the 1980’s and 90’s, like Clinical Kinesiology (CK) and Body Talk, was the concept of priority. Instead of just finding imbalances and fixing them, as Applied Kinesiology or Touch for Health do, the more sophisticated systems asked the body what is the top priority or primary imbalance. When these issues are fixed correctly the body then automatically resolves dozens of other issues that were merely compensating for the priority.

Clinical Kinesiology also discovered the phenomenon of hand modes. These are specific hand positions or mudras that are used in conjunction with manual muscle testing to determine not only what is wrong with the body but also what is the best technique to fix it. Clinical Kinesiology incorporates many chiropractic styles, massage, acupuncture, homeopathy, herbs, nutritional testing, Neuro emotional technique, essential oils etc. It also has the capability to incorporate new systems, as they are discovered, and add them to the menu of potential treatment options for the body to choose from.

Just as H20 can exist as a solid, liquid or gas, we too exist as all three states. We have a solid structure. Our blood vessels and cells are filled with liquid. And our thoughts and emotions are neither solid nor liquid but more like ether or gas. So what level of our being is primary? Well, they are inter-related and when we affect one, we necessarily affect the others. Sometimes the body asks for structural work and sometimes chemical or emotional issues are primary. The point is that with something as complex and multi-dimensional as a human being we can’t rely on our intellect to figure out what modalities would be best for healing. Since the kinesiologist has access to the patient’s own body wisdom he doesn’t need to use his logical mind to ‘figure it out’. In fact, the logical mind can be a hindrance in this case. We serve people best by quieting our mind and “listening” to the body’s needs and delivering the requested therapy (even if it makes no logical sense!)

One of my chiropractic mentors once told me that when he was new in practice he had a patient who was young and appeared quite healthy. The muscle testing said she needed 75 various nutritional pills per day! The doctor said that he didn’t understand the reading and he did not encourage her to take what her body had asked for. He discovered six months later that this girl was close to death. Her body had been aware she needed a tremendous amount of nutrition to heal her but the doctor allowed his logical mind to second guess the muscle testing. He said he has never doubted his readings since.

Call to receive a complementary muscle testing evaluation in my Santa Barbara holistic chiropractic clinic.

Sincerely,

Hesu Whitten DC

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Manual Muscle Testing

Applied Kinesiology and muscle testing are often interchangeable terms when used to describe the method for asking the body questions about itself. Muscles are designed to turn on and off very quickly. When you flex any muscle, its antagonist or opposing muscle turns off so the two muscles are not fighting each other.

The basics of muscle testing: This can be done standing or lying down. When standing, have the person you are testing hold their arm straight out to the side and grab their arm just before the wrist. Test to make sure their muscle tests strong ‘in the clear’ before testing anything to know you have a ‘strong’ muscle to work with. When I say strong I don’t mean you should apply 50 lbs of force to it. It is like if a door is closed and you don’t know if it is latched…how hard do you have to push on it to determine if it is in fact latched? So it only takes a couple of pounds of force for about a half second to know if the muscle is “locked” or “engaged”. When it goes weak it feels like a door that isn’t latched and simply gives way.

In muscle testing it can be observed that when we ask a question or make a statement the muscle will stay strong when the answer to the question is “yes” or the statement is “true”. Conversely, the muscle will disengage or feel weak if the statement is not true or the answer is “no”. It is as if the body is a computer and when we feed it information that is not congruent with the truth it creates confusion in the system and interferes with the nerve signal reaching the muscle.

For example, if I were to test your arm immediately after stating “all your organs can easily handle dairy”, your arm would stay strong if the statement was true for you and go weak if it was not true. We could thereby determine your food sensitivities.

Some do’s and don’ts on how to test.

• Only test a question one time. When you second guess the test it creates an air of doubt and uncertainty which makes the testing unreliable.
• Before pushing on the arm tell the person “hold” or “resist” and then smoothly build the pressure for half a second. Don’t test in a jerky manner.
• If the persons muscle doesn’t seem to lock and seems spongy it often is due to being dehydrated. Take a few sips and then try again.
• If you do not test with too much force their arm should not get tired but if it does just switch arms.
• The body will give reliable information but only if the question or statement is unambiguous and clear. Examples of ‘bad’ questions are “am I healthy”, “can I or should I…..”  It is better to say “it is in my best interests to…eat meat, go workout now, stay in this relationship”.
• Muscle testing is not to be used for foretelling the future or picking lottery numbers or stocks. The testing will actually give you answers but they will not be correct.

If you would like to learning muscle testing feel free to email or call. I live in Santa Barbara and do chiropractic kinesiology and clinical kinesiology. If you want to try it on your own I am happy to answer any questions that come up for you in the process. I will put together a class when there is enough interest. Taking a class on Touch for Health is a good starting point.

Sincerely,

Hesu Whitten DC

Come in for a complementary clinical kinesiology evaluation.

(805)962-8548

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