Attitude

Attitude: The Primary Factor

The first step to longevity and optimum health on a poor person's budget is to master your attitude.

1) You are completely in charge of your own attitude.

2) You are free to master your attitude for little to no monetary cost.

3) Your attitude affects the totality of your health. No health care, therapy, drug, medication, surgery, herb, vitamin, nor any other treatment will be entirely successful if your attitude is not mastered.

There are three main parts of an attitude:

A) The part of you that perceives what happens around you in your life.

B) Your opinion about what happens around you.

C) The messages you send back to the world about your opinion, via your body language, words, and actions.

To master your attitude, you need to address all three parts.

First you need to strive to perceive accurately. If you perceive that someone is trying to hurt you when he is actually trying to help you, your opinion and actions will be inappropriately stressful to both you and the other person.

Second, there are always multiple angles from which to view what happens. And there is good and bad in everything. You can make sure to at least look for as much good in what happens as bad before you make your opinions.

Third, you can master the messages, body language, words and actions you give to the world so that they accurately communicate what you want to tell the world.

The benefits of mastering your attitude on your health are less stress, more fun, better digestion, improved circulation, better sleep, slower aging, faster workout recovery, and enhanced creativity and productivity, just to name a few. In reality, it enhances all the positive aspects of health and decreases the propensity for all disease and illness.

Mastering your attitude is the first step towards forgiveness of others and more importantly of yourself. Remember, there is good and bad to everything including you! If you focus on the negative in others, in the world, and in you, then you won't like others, you won't like the world, and you won't like yourself. This is a recipe for illness and disease, not to mention general suffering for you and those around you. When you look at the whole picture bad and good, then you can forgive misgivings and embrace internal peace. When you feel good about yourself and the world, everything else in your life comes into balance, especially your health.






















Yours in Health,

Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.
www.campise-chiropractor-fresno.com
(559) 930-1034

Health Care Crisis? Or Medical Insurance Crisis?

How many people die each year of old age in their sleep? (By this I mean you were healthy one day, you go to bed that night, and before morning you are dead. And, upon autopsy there is nothing wrong with you except that you are no longer breathing, your heart is stopped, and your brain waves are absent.)


Answer: Not very many (as a percentage of all deaths).

The importance of dying of old age for this discussion is that it implies there were no medical costs associated with an illness or with last ditch efforts to prevent your death. And it implies that you lived your full natural life. That is to say, disease is not natural. Disease is man made. Well, there is dis-ease caused by injuries and accidents.

There are two types of illness: Dis-ease, and Disease.

1)    Dis-ease:
Acute injury completely induced by a distinct physical, emotional, thermal, parasitic, or chemical trauma. For example, a car accident where you break your leg, getting held at gun point by a mugger afterwhich you can’t sleep for several days, spilling hot grease on your hand causing a 2nd degree burn, unknowingly drinking water contaminated with parasites causing diarrhea for a few days, or accidentally eating a poisonous mushroom and needing to get your stomach pumped so you’ll stop convulsing.

2)    Disease:
Chronic or acute illness induced by many seemingly insignificant and unrelated factors. All the contributing factors are rarely fully known. For example, moderate B12 deficiency, moderate Vitamin D deficiency, multiple moderate trace mineral deficiencies, moderate water deficiency, mild exposure to hundreds of toxic chemicals from plastics to heavy metals to pesticides to food preservatives to smog to mold, lack of exercise, an overbearing boss at work, a grudge against your sister-in-law, a diet moderately high in refined sugar, often skipping meals, a whiplash from a car accident as a teenager that never really healed right leaving you with slightly noticeable, but excessive, muscular and ligamentous scarring in your neck, and repetitive motions of the arms at your assembly line job all leading to the symptoms and diagnosis of fibromyalgia, or heart attack, or chronic fatigue, or carpal tunnel syndrome, or GERD, or Graves disease, or ulcerative colitis.

We have medical treatments for each of these diseases, but none of the treatments correct the multifactorial underlying causes of the disease. For example, Graves disease is when your immune system is attacking your thyroid causing it to make too much thyroid hormone, making you sick.

One medical treatment for Graves disease is to cut out or poison the thyroid so that it stops working forever. Then replace the thyroid hormone with a medication that mimics the same function so you feel normal again. This is a miracle that humans can do this.

BUT, has this treatment addressed the B12 deficiency, the vitamin D deficiency, any of the mineral deficiencies, any of the patient’s dietary habits, or neutralized the effects of the man-made chemicals stored up in the patient’s nerves and organs, all of which has together caused the disease?

No, it hasn’t.

Very high probability this patient will “contract” a second disease before he dies that will also need expensive medical attention. Very likely this patient already had several other “common” disorders like acid reflux, PMS, headaches, sinus infections, high blood pressure, diabetes, that were being “treated,” each with it’s own medication, before the Graves disease showed up. If not, a laundry list is very likely to show up down the road, because the underlying causes have not been corrected.

So, how does someone get so many of the above problems leading to non-accident type disease? The answer is: mostly, by accident.

If you don’t know about B12 deficiency and how to prevent it and you live in a culture whose habits and environments predispose the group to B12 deficiency, and the culture’s doctors are largely blind to it, then you will likely become B12 deficient.

B12 deficiency is easily and cheaply corrected. Graves disease, heart disease, ulcerative colitis, and so on, are very expensive to treat medically and/or surgically.

We generally can’t prevent the accidents that cause dis-ease in section one above. These can at times be expensive to treat depending on their severity. But they are generally singular events.

Since the multiple chronic small accidents causing disease in section two above are rarely corrected, expensive treatment for these diseases is perpetual. It is also widespread, almost inevitably reaching every member of our culture in one form or another.

Since our culture is largely ignorant of how to prevent or proactively remedy the small accidents in our health, EVERYONE is sick. Medical insurance CANNOT monetarily function properly if 99% of the people are either sick or a ticking disease time bomb.

Most people do not get into expensive car accidents. If EVERYONE either totaled his car each year, OR caused a huge 50 car pile up on the freeway right before he died (the monetary equivalent of American’s disease care problem), auto insurance would cost at least 10 times what it currently does, similar to health care insurance. And of course, the older you got, the more expensive your auto insurance rates would be, just like health insurance.

National health care is a great idea. But it will bankrupt America because Americans are ALL SO sick. If you are not ill today, you will be before you die, and it’s going to be a very expensive series of medical treatments.

National health care is a great idea. But not if the nation’s primary health care model is medication and surgery. Medication and surgery are the most expensive forms of health care and should only be used as last resort. PLUS, they often don’t correct the underlying cause of the disease, and they don’t prevent future new disease in the individual.

National health care is a great idea. IF it only covers the diseases in category one above (rare large accidents), AND/OR if it encourages the education of the public through researchers, doctors, and teachers about how to prevent and proactively remedy the small persistent accidents of disease.

Several years ago I was watching Jesse Jackson on Larry King Live. He was talking about the tragedy in America that 40 million or so people have no health insurance.

My naïve brain at first didn’t understand why that was a problem. Maybe these people chose not to have insurance.

One of my teachers in college was in his 80’s and told us that he decided when he was 25 that he wasn’t going to purchase medical insurance for his family. Instead he would put the amount of his premium into an investment account each month and withdraw it if he needed it for medical expenses. He ended up never needing to use very much of it and when he retired he used the money to pay cash for a very nice mountain cabin at Lake Tahoe, California. Maybe he was one of the 40 million Jesse Jackson spoke about.

But then I realized that likely most of the 40 million were poor inner city folks and unemployed and homeless individuals. And perhaps some were single moms working 3 part time jobs.

Another part of my confusion was that I myself had no health care insurance at the time except for accident insurance with a high deductible. My monthly premium was about $38 per month. I was sure that most of the 40 million uninsured could afford an extra $38 per month if they really wanted to. Many homeless earn several hundred a month by begging. But then I realized he wasn’t talking about accident insurance, he was talking about disease care insurance to cover medications and surgeries for chronic diseases. The cost of this at the time for me would have been between $150 and $400 per month depending on the plan I chose. Likely most of the 40 million uninsured could not afford this, and likely if they were older than me (I was in my 20s) then their cost would be even higher.

Thinking ahead to Jesse Jackson’s likely conclusion for how to fix this health insurance tragedy, I easily saw a new national medical insurance program as being his solution.

Familiar with the way congress has spent money that should have been invested for social security and medicare programs, so that we are headed for a huge financial train wreck over it, I quickly saw that, though a seemingly good idea, creating a government program to pay for expensive medical disease care for 40,000,000 people throughout their entire lifetime, not just when they are old, was a recipe for the end of our country financially as we know it.

After several months of brewing in my head, I clearly saw the need for an alternative to nationalized medical insurance, hopefully preventing my country’s bankruptcy. What if I created a free educational video for poor people explaining to them how to prevent disease on a budget so that they don’t ever need expensive medical intervention, so that they can get and remain healthy, dying one day of old age!

If this were possible, then national health care or not, the people would not need insurance, or if they had insurance they wouldn't ever need to use it, thus the country is saved from financial ruin.

The problem I had was there were too many variables. There were too many diseases to prevent and too many actions that might need to be taken depending on each individual’s situation.

Since then I have come across more and more information that has actually simplified my view of health dramatically.

And a miracle has happened in medical science. The wide extent of the health benefits of proper vitamin D levels has become greatly elucidated.

As it turns out, almost all of us have below optimal levels of vitamin D leading to many chronic diseases! This means killing perhaps hundreds of disease birds with the one stone of vitamin D. Oh, yeah, vitamin D is free from the sun in the summer, and it’s dirt cheap as an oral supplement during the winter.

Yet another miracle is the invention of processing the complex mineral zeolite into a potent, effective, and super safe detoxifying agent! It is also relatively cheap compared to most medical interventions.

Stay tuned for my list of how to get and stay healthy so you will never need medication or surgery: all on a poor man's budget!


Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.
www.campise-chiropractor-fresno.com
Fresno, Ca

Could It Be B12?

B12 is an essential vitamin we must get from our diet in order to live, let alone be healthy. B12 is necessary for oxygenation of the body. How long can you hold your breath? How long does it take to drown? It only takes a few minutes without oxygen and we pass out, and then we die.

If you are reading this, you are alive, so you must have some B12 in your body. However, the amount of B12 in your body can directly affect your health and well-being, let alone any illness you may be experiencing. Somewhat like the oil in your car's engine, there is a wide range of function. If your car's engine holds 4 quarts of oil and it is a quart low, you won't notice anything unless you check the dip stick. Actually, if your engine is 3 and a half quarts low, you won't notice much except maybe a clacking noise when you first start it up. You might notice the engine is running a little hotter, but nothing huge. But then if you drive it thousands of miles this way, it will wear out very prematurely. Your power will diminish over time, your gas mileage will go down, and eventually the engine will seize up and die.
Similarly, B12 levels in the body can be very low for many years without any major problems stopping you from daily activities. But you might feel less energetic, your stamina might slow, you might not recover or heal from mild injuries very well. Then one day you might wake up and realize how bad you actually feel, go to the doctor, get some tests, and find out that you might have Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, or any of hundreds of other serious chronic illnesses. You might even get medications to treat your newly diagnosed disease. You might get some relief, but hard to say. Then it continues to slowly get worse and worse.

B12 deficiency leads to a long laundry list of symptoms that is almost all inclusive of any disease. In other words, if you have any chronic symptoms whether or not you have been diagnosed with a disease, you could be B12 deficient. B12 deficiency syndrome may be the most misdiagnosed illness in the United States because it's symptoms mimic so many different illnesses and diseases.

The treatment for B12 deficiency is taking a series of B12 shots and/or now there are B12 patches available.

The risk factors for B12 deficiency are any of the following (the more risk factors you have the higher the likelihood you are B12 deficient, but having just one of these can cause full blown B12 deficiency):

1) Currently having or ever having had a chronic illness of any kind
2) Vegetarian/Vegan diet
3) Over the age of 50
4) Stomach issues of any kind (GERD, heart burn, acid reflux, h.pylori, hiatal hernia, and so on.)
5) Stomach surgery of any kind including gastric bypass
6) Taking antacids or other stomach medications (like proton pump inhibitors)
7) Daily aspirin use
8) Colon or intestinal issues of any kind
9) Colon or intestinal surgery
10) Any autoimmune disease, especially those affecting the intestines, colon, or stomach
11) Any malabsorption issues
12) Constipation/diarrhea issues
13) Anemia
14) Pregnancy
15) Nerve damage of any kind
16) Exposure to toxins of any kind (heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, medications, petrochemicals, smog, vog, and so on)

The list of symptoms caused by B12 deficiency is so incredibly long that before you take ANY medication for anything other than a medically induced reason (like due to a surgery or due to an organ transplant, and so on) you should check you B12 status first. If you are low, then take a series of shots or patches for two to six months to see if your symptoms clear up.

When you test your B12 status, you need to check more than just your blood levels of B12. You need to check for MMA blood and urine levels, blood homocystein levels, antibody titers for stomach parietal cells, and antibody titers for intrinsic factor. If any of these are abnormal, you need B12 therapy. And, once you are through the intensive phase of B12 therapy, you need lifetime maintenance of one shot per month or two patches per month. The reason for this is that if you have ever been B12 deficient, you have a high likelihood of getting it again. B12 deficiency can quickly return in some people and cause permanent and irreversible nerve or brain damage. It is such an inexpensive prevention tool to take a shot or patch of B12 regularly, that it is considered medical malpractice not to do so.

If you cannot afford the tests needed to diagnose B12 deficiency, it is harmless to take B12 if you don't need it, and so far there has been no reports of B12 overdose causing any damage to your body or even symptoms. So, it would be perfectly safe to take B12 as if you were deficient. But, you can't get a shot without an MD prescription (and blood tests are usually needed for this), and oral or sublingual B12 is not well absorbed for the purposes of those severely deficient. This leaves the B12 patch. This is available online and we carry it at my office.

To learn more about B12, it's role in your body, signs and symptoms of deficiency, and testing and treatment options, read the book Could It Be B12?

Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.
5035 E. Belmont #D Fresno CA 93727
(559) 930-1034
drc@drjohnusa.com
www.campise-chiropractor-fresno.com

Does Sunscreen Protect Me From Skin Cancer?

Skin cancer comes in two major types: life threatening and non-life threatening or melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC), including basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The newest evidence suggests that exposure to UVA light is the main cause of non-melanoma skin cancers. Whereas melanoma is not only caused by UVA exposure but by a lack of UVB exposure (a lack of vitamin D).

Most sunscreens only block UVB light, they do not block UVA. So by using sunscreen, you enable yourself to stay in the sun longer without getting burned. This increases your exposure to UVA, and it stops your body from making vitamin D from the UVB. The statistical data clearly shows an increase in the incidence of melanoma in step with the increase in sunscreen sales. And there is evidence that other cancers have higher incidence in higher economic and higher educated areas. This is thought to be due to the fact that the more money and education someone has, the more likely they are to purchase and use sunscreen as well as consciously limit sun exposure. This likely came about because it was erroneously taught in classes and magazine and newspaper articles, that sun exposure leads to melanoma and, sunscreen helps prevent it.

There are some sunscreens that block UVA waves only, but they don't do a very good job of it as they only block a small portion of the UVA spectrum. The only sunscreen that currently completely blocks UVA is zinc oxide. But zinc oxide is opaque and unsightly to most. It also blocks UVB completely as well, so you can't make vitamin D under it.

UVB creates the precursor of vitamin D from cholesterol on our skin. This precursor then gets absorbed and converted to an intermediate form of D in the liver. Then in large amounts that circulate in the blood by the kidneys and in small amounts for local use by every cell in the body, the active form of vitamin D is formed.

UVB is also what makes us get a sunburn if overexposed to it. So if a sunscreen keeps you from getting burned, it has to block UVB. UVB is good for you to the extent that it makes vitamin D for us and to the extent that vitamin D prevents cancer, especially melanoma.

There is conflicting information about where a tan comes from. According to skincancer.org, UVA is the "dominant tanning ray." And at many tanning salons, their beds have light bulbs which produce mainly UVA light waves (something like 80-90% UVA and 10-20% UVB). But according to Edward Gorham, M.P.H., Ph.D., professor at UCSD department of Family and Preventive Medicine ( http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=15770 ), it is UVB that causes tanning. From my own experience with sunscreen use, I don't tan when I use it. Also, when touring a tanning salon, I was shown a bed called a high pressure bed. It had bulbs which emitted 100% of its rays in the UVA spectrum. When I asked about its use, I was told that it will not make you tan, but once you have a tan, it will help the tan "deepen." When asked the definition of "deepen" there was no clear answer. According to the salon keeper, the "high pressure" 100% UVA bed doesn't darken the tan, it doesn't prolong the tan, and you still have to use beds with a little UVB in order to keep your tan. Hmmm.

Dr. Joseph Mercola (developer of the world's largest alternative health email newsletter) sells tanning beds for the purpose of making vitamin D. He sells one bed which produces both UVA and UVB rays, and he sells another bed which produces only UVB rays that he markets as "designed for those of you who want the benefits of the sun without tanning." Hmmm. I've emailed him asking if any of his customers have complained about this bed being "broken" because it is causing them to tan, but I haven't received an answer yet. I'm sure these answers be settled over the next few years as research on vitamin D explodes.

Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.
5035 E. Belmont #D
Fresno, CA 93727
www.campise-chiropractor-fresno.com

How to Use Sunshine to Prevent and Treat Cancer

Cancer Prevention and Treatment with Sunshine
Fresno, CA

As I wrote in my last two blogs, getting enough vitamin D is essential to preventing cancer and it is likely greatly helpful in treating cancer. As you know, we can make vitamin D from sunshine. But, not all sunshine is equal when it comes to making vitamin D.

It is only a very small part of sunshine that we can make D with, it is the UVB part of the spectrum. 99% of the UVB from the sun is filtered out by the ozone layer. And when the sun is on the horizon, the amount of atmosphere the light has to travel through filters out the last one percent. So for the first and last several hours of each day, we cannot make vitamin D from the sunlight that reaches the earth's surface.

Now during the winter, if you live north of the latitude of San Diego, the sun is so low on the horizon all day that no UVB reaches us at all during the winter. We rely on body stores of D from the summer or from our diet. Most illnesses and conditions including cancers get worse or have relapses more often during the winter months than during the summer, and lack of sun leading to low D is now thought to be the reason.

The further away from the equator you live, the longer the time is during the winter where there is no UVB to make D with. Also, the more smog there is, the less UVB reaches the ground level, and of course the more clouds there are, the less UVB. One clear set of data showing evidence for sunshine's role in causing cancer is an overlap of colon cancer incidence rates per region and a map of the amount of sunshine per region. The less the sunshine, the higher the rates of colon cancer. With one nuance, the New England area has a higher rate of colon cancer than should be predicted with the amount of sunshine. But when overlapping the map of the thickness of the ozone, we see that the ozone is unusually thick over New England. This means that more UVB is filtered out in this region than in other regions, even when the sun is shining!

So it's not just sunshine, it is UVB that matters. The amount of UVB reaching the planet is mostly affected by your distance from the equator, but it also depends on time of year, time of day, weather, pollution, and elevation above sea level. The closer to noon, the closer to mid summer, the less the cloud cover (clouds will block at least 20% of the 1% of the UVB that makes it through the ozone), and the higher the elevation, the more UVB is available.

To prevent or treat cancer we need 60-80ng/ml 25OH vit D blood levels. The only way to know your level is to get a blood test (www.grassrootshealth.net). We can make up to 20,000 units of D on our skin in 20 minutes of sunshine exposure at the right time of day and season. But don't wash your skin with soap right away because the D is made on top of your skin, not in it. It needs time to absorb. Soap will wash off some or most of the D if applied too soon after sun exposure. This is one reason cats and dogs lick themselves so much, their D is made from sun shining on oils that have migrated to the tip of their fur. They then lick the vitamin D off their fur and swallow it.

Another variable to making vitamin D from sunshine is skin color. The darker your skin color, the longer you need to spend in the sun to make the same amount of D as a lighter skinned person. The time difference between a dark black person and a fair skinned red head, can be ten times more. In fact, with dark enough skin, it is impossible to get enough D from sunshine for optimal health if you are further than a certain distance from the equator. Again, check your blood levels with a blood test to know for sure.

Dr.John B. Campise, D.C.
5035 E. Belmont #D
Fresno, CA 93727
www.campise-chiropractor-fresno.com

Raising D Levels to Prevent and Treat Cancer

Can getting more sunshine and taking a vitamin really prevent and treat cancer?

In my last blog I talked about the new theory of the cause of cancer, the DINOMIT model. In this model vitamin D deficiency is at the base of this theory. This is good news for cancer prevention because it means that at just a few dollars a month, everyone in the US can afford to reduce their risk for cancer by possibly 70-99%.

The DINOMIT model also has good news for cancer patients seeking treatment because it shows that at ANY stage of ANY cancer, we can halt the growth of the cancer simply by restoring proper intercellular communication by raising blood levels of Vitamin D to optimum 60-80ng/ml. This is done by letting UVB light shine on your skin each day for long enough to tan but not burn, and/or by taking D2 or D3 oral supplements.

The only way to know what your blood levels of D are is to take a blood test. The test to order is "25 OH vit D," not "1-25 OH vit D." Then you can sun bathe or take D supplements and recheck you blood in two weeks to check your progress. Current research is finding that patients undergoing chemotherapy have a very hard time getting their blood levels of D to rise. This may be due to Vit D's role in producing glutathione, a protein used by the liver to rid the body of toxins.

Vitamin D toxicity does not occur until blood levels rise above 200ng/ml, so don't be afraid to take too much D at first. For a typical person, 1000 iu of D3 per day will raise blood levels 7-10ng/ml. But the trick is, you have to take the 1000 iu per day forever to maintain the higher level (unless other sources of D increase such as sunshine). If you are overweight, then it may require 2000-3000 iu of D3 to raise your blood levels of D by 7-10ng/ml. And if you are sick (like have cancer) it may take 2000-3000 iu of D3 per day or if you are toxic (like taking chemotherapy)then it may take 2000-3000 iu per day. So if you are obese, have cancer, and are on chemotherapy, you may need 5000-7000 iu of D3 per day to raise your blood levels by 7-10 points in two weeks. That can add up to a lot of D3 per day compared to the old standard of 400iu being plenty for good health.

The bottom line is that everyone and every case is different. You need to check you blood level regularly to know exactly where you are at and how to proceed.

Cancer
Fresno, Ca

www.campise-chiropractor-fresno.com

www.grassrootshealth.net to order your vit D pin prick blood test

New Theory of the Cause of Cancer from UCSD

Fresno, CA

Natural alternative treatment for cancer?

There is a new hypothesis on the cause of malignant cancer. It is called DINOMIT (pronounced dynomite). Natural selection on the cellular level is the basis of the new theory (based on new scientific biochemical discoveries). It goes kinda like this: each cell in our bodies has it's own drive to survive by harvesting nutrients from it's environment. On one level, all the cells around it compete for the same nutrients. Cells have a lot of weapons at their disposal for survival because each has a complete copy of instructions to create every function that exists in the entire organism (DNA). The most effective means of competing with your neighbors is for the cell to replicate or clone itself over and over so that it and it's clones will physically outnumber and thus out-compete it's neighboring cells for nutrients.

But, since every cell has this ability to clone itself rapidly, each cell then has to try to prevent the cells around it from doing so. The way cells inhibit their neighbors from replicating themselves too much (cancer) is by sending chemical messengers to the cells around them which turn off the genes which enable them to replicate too much. These messengers travel through connections between the cells called gap junctions.

New research is showing that the gap junctions that allow chemical communication between cells is dependent on vitamin D. When vitamin D levels drop, gap junctions between cells begin to decline. Without gap junctions, cells can no longer stop surrounding cells from replicating themselves in order to compete for nutrients. This is the new theory of the cause of all cancer.

D = Disjunction of cells (caused by blood levels of Vit D below 40-80ng/ml)
I = Initiation (type and location of cancer depends on genetic variation)
N = Natural Selection (cells trying to compete for nutrients with neighboring cells)
o = Overgrowth
M = Metastasis (break away of cells, setting up colonies of cells in distant tissues)
I = Involution (Cancer slows down)
T = Transition (Cancer becomes chronic)

Chemicals known as carcinogens (cancer causing) will change the DNA of cells so that they are more likely to replicate too much (cancer), but only if there is a loss of the inhibitory signals from it's neighbors through a loss of the gap junctions which connect them.

Recent evident strongly suggests that at any stage of the above DINOMIT process, cancer can be stopped by restoring the gap junction communication between cells. This happens by raising blood levels of vitamin D above 40-80ng/ml.

Even if you have late stage cancer, theoretically, if you can raise your blood levels of vit D to the appropriate level, the cancer will halt. It won't ever go away, but it will stop progressing. If your vit D levels ever drop again too low, the cancer will start growing again.

Fresno, CA
www.campise-chiropractor-fresno.com

www.grassrootshealth.net

You are invited!

You are invited to meet Dr. Campise at the next Special Report!

Come learn why you may benefit from the alternative natural holistic chiropractic, vitamin, herbal, emotional, cleansing, hyperbaric treatments that we offer at Dr. Campise's clinic here in Fresno.

The next Special Report is:

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 6 pm until 7 pm.

The office address is 5035 E. Belmont #D, Fresno, CA 93727

Bring a loved one with you. There is no charge for attending a Special Report.

www.drjohnusa.com

Hyperbaric treatments offered in Fresno

At our clinic here in Fresno, we offer hourly low pressure hyperbaric treatment at the clinic, and we offer chambers for lease so you can have more lengthy daily treatments at home for the fastest, most cost-effective recovery possible.


Our at home rental hyparbaric chambers are limited in number. There is currently a waiting list. To put your name on the list, please email us at hyperbaric@drjohnusa.com.

What are the differences between the types of hyperbaric treatments available on the market today?

High pressure hyperbarics are chambers that pressurize to 6 psi or above. These generally are made of metal and are located in hospital settings. This type of treatment is needed for scuba divers suffering from the “bends,” for burn victims, gangrene, diabetic ulcers, bed sores, certain cancer patients, for stroke and head injury victims within the first few weeks or months of the stroke or injury, and carbon monoxide poisoning.

Low pressure or “mild” hyperbarics are chambers that pressurize to 6 psi or below. These generally are made of soft vinyl and are portable. This type of treatment is better suited for all chronic conditions, sports performance enhancement, workout recovery, mild to moderate wound healing, and morning sickness during pregnancy.

Concentrated or pure oxygen breathed by patients while under pressure is a good idea for the people who also need high pressure hyperbarics. However, pure or concentrated oxygen is a drug and it can have undesirable side effects. Pure oxygen overdose can lead to blindness, seizures, spasms, or general worsening of your condition. Pure oxygen used in conjunction with hyperbarics makes the possibility of oxygen overdose much easier. The use of pure oxygen with hyperbarics should be limited to 1-2 hours per day and limited to the time it takes to see moderate resolution of symptoms or to 6 weeks, whichever comes first.

Ambient air (normal air from the atmosphere without concentrated oxygen) breathed by patients while under pressure is all that is needed for most conditions and is the safest way to undergo hyperbarics. When using ambient air, there is no time limit to the therapy. We find best results for chronic conditions come from using low pressure hyperbarics with ambient air on a daily basis for 6-8 hours per day. The only way to achieve this amount of care for most is to rent a chamber and sleep in it at night in the comfort of your own home.

How does hyperbaric therapy work?

When you are inside the chamber, we pump air into it to increase the air pressure around you. When the air pressure increases, it's as if the oxygen molecules get smaller, which allows more of them to enter your blood vessels in your lungs as you breathe. And these “smaller” oxygen molecules can then more easily find their way into injured or sick areas that don't have good blood circulation. The oxygen also saturates your brain and spinal cord fluid more readily, making healing brain injuries of any kind more likely than without hyperbaric therapy.

An analogy to understand this better is to imagine oxygen being a tennis ball and a blood vessel as a firehose. You can fit a certain number of tennis balls into the fire hose. But if you could shrink the tennis balls to the size of a marble, then you could fit many more into the fire hose. Hyperbaric does just this, it allows many more molecules of oxygen to dissolve into your blood plasma, cerebral spinal fluid, and all your tissues than is possible at normal atmospheric pressure. This increased availability of oxygen to your body tissues allows the enzymatic processes of healing to speed up.

Why isn't breathing pure oxygen the same as hyperbarics?

Breathing pure oxygen will increase the concentration of oxygen in your lungs, but the oxygen molecules are still the same size. You can only fit so many of them into your blood. But with hyperbarics, the molecules effectively become “smaller” so that many more of them can squeeze into your blood with each breath. In the above example, breathing pure oxygen is like trying to use a wheel barrel full of tennis balls to make more balls fit into the fire hose. Just because you have more of them doesn't mean that more will get into the hose. The same is true for pure oxygen, just because you have more oxygen in your lungs, doesn't mean that more is dissolving into your blood plasma. You need to effectively make the oxygen smaller with hyperbarics in order to get more in.

Can you feel the pressure?

No. But you can feel the pressure changing in your ears like when driving up into the mountains. Your ears will “pop” as the pressure is changing. Once you reach treatment pressure, your ears stop popping and there is no noticeable difference while under pressure.

Is hyperbarics safe?

Chambers that pressurize to 5 lbs or less without the use of concentrated oxygen (like the ones we use at our Fresno office and offer for lease) are perfectly safe as long as your ears are “clearing” okay. The only danger would be a bruised ear drum if your ears were not clearing and you tried to “tuff it out” by continuing to allow the chamber to climb in pressure despite the early warning signs of pain. This is why it is important to wait until any head colds or sinus or ear congestion goes away before being treated with hyperbaric therapy. If on rare occasion you feel any pain in your ears while pressurizing, by simply lowering the pressure of the chamber the pain will immediately subside.

Why would a patient want to rent a chamber for use at home?

Many chronic conditions helped by low pressure hyperbaric therapy require hundreds of hours of time spent under pressure. In order to achieve this, it would take months or years by only logging one hour per day at a doctor's office. By renting a chamber at your house you can sleep in it at night for 6-8 hours, thus cutting down the time of completing the necessary treatments by 6-8 times. Instead of spending months or years in therapy, it would only take you weeks or a few months.

Also, the cost of renting a chamber by the week or month is far less expensive than paying for treatments by the hour. Renting effectively lowers the cost of treatment to just a few dollars per hour. And if there is more than one person in your household who need hyperbarics, you can cut the cost down even further by sharing the rental. And this doesn't count the time and money savings from having to drive to and from the clinic daily.

Visit our website at www.campise-chiropractor-fresno.com

Upcoming self bodywork class with Maida Sensei in Fresno

Self Bodywork class with

Ki Principles

Sunday March 7, 2010

12:30pm to 4:30pm

Location: Aikido of Fresno Dojo, 1130 N Wishon Ave., Fresno, CA 93728

Instructor: Pietro Yuji Maida, 7^th Dan

Self Bodywork with Ki Principles

This seminar will provide the participant with study and practice of methods developed by the teachers of Maida Sensei: Kiatsu from Koichi Tohei and Zentherapy from Dub Leigh and Tanouye Tenshin Rotaishi.

Kiastu is the part of Aikido that focuses on the healing of injuries. It involves the application of pressure with the fingers while maintaining coordination of one’s mind and body and staying actively relaxed.

Zentherapy® contains aspects of the deep tissue work of Rolf, the neuro-muscular re-education of Feldenkrais and the Ki training of Zen Master, Tanouye Tenshin Rotaishi.

“Self Bodywork” is a way, which Maida Sensei has developed, to use the above techniques and principles by applying them to yourself, in other words, self treatment.

The benefits of self bodywork include:

1. Learning to take greater responsibility for your own health.

2. Being able to treat your body daily.

3. You know your body better than anyone so you can also know better where to apply pressure, how much pressure, and for how long.

4. Since the patient does the healing, not the practitioner, self bodywork can be more effective than trying to let someone else “do the work” for you.

Pietro Yuji Maida Sensei, the Chief Instructor of the Northern California Ki Society, is one of the highest-ranking Ki instructors in the United States.

His studies began with Koichi Tohei Sensei in the 1970’s while living in Japan, where he studied Aikido, Zen, and other traditional cultural arts. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1980, he became a professional Aikido Instructor.

He has extensive experience in Rinzai Zen meditation (as a student of Tanouye Tenshin Rotaishi), Japanese Swordsmanship (under Takahashi Eiichi), and Zentherapy® (with Willliam "Dub" Leigh).

Maida Sensei continues to train under the direct guidance of Tohei Sensei, Kashiwaya Sensei and other senior instructors of Ki Society.

For more information or to RSVP:

Contact Dr. John Campise:

email: drc@drjohnusa.com

cell: (559) 930-1034

For more info on Dr Campise visit :www.drjohnusa.com

For more info on Maida Sensei and Ki-Aikido visit : www.kiaikido.org

Vitamin D

Vitamin D has been known to be an essential nutrient since we discovered that its absence leads to the bone disease called Rickets in the early 1900s. But not until epidemiological studies over the last 2-5 years have we known the unusually wide impacts vitamin D has on the human organism.

The following are now known to be caused in large part by vitamin D deficiency: Cardiovascular disease; all cancers; autoimmune diseases including diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatism; osteoporosis; autism; arthritis; obesity; and lowered immunity such as chronic colds, flus, and bronchitis, and chronic sinus, bladder, and vaginal infections.

As you can see, a simple vitamin supplement or a simple behavior change of going out in the sun with exposed skin may be able to prevent most of the top 10 causes of death in the U.S. Imagine if in 50 years the #1 cause of death is old age where people die in their sleep, just from adding a single nutrient to our diets!

Change #1:
Don't be afraid of the sun causing skin cancer. Those who use sunscreen are at greater risk of melanoma. It is still not a good idea to get sunburned, so either slowly increase your sun exposure so you build a tan to prevent burn, or if you can't tan, then cover up with clothes or go back indoors to prevent burning. If you are very fair skinned and don't tan, then you likely make more D in your skin from sun per minute than the rest of us so the amount of time you need to spend in the sun is less than most anyway.

Change #2:
Those north of San Diego cannot make vitamin D from the sun in the winter. Supplementing with D or eating D rich foods is a must. Foods such as wild salmon and other wild fatty fish have enough D for the day per serving. But that means you would have to eat fish every day all winter. So a vitamin supplement is the most efficient and effective method for most in the winter.

Change #3:
Testing your blood levels one to two times per year is a must. It is a hundred times more important than most any other test your doctor may want to perform on you including cholesterol level. You will not know if your sun exposure or supplements are keeping your D levels in optimal range unless you check. Go to www.grassrootshealth.net to mail order a home test.

Change #4:
Dosage. The old recommended dosage was 400 IU per day. Now it is closer to 4000 IU per day! A ten fold increase. Pregnant women should take 6000 IU per day through pregnancy and until the child is weaned. Children under the age of one should take 1000 IU per day and those between 1 and 13 should take 2000 IU per day.

Change #5
Blood levels. The old minimum blood level was 20 ng/ml. Now it is 80-100 ng/ml. To raise your blood levels 10 ng/ml take 1000 IU per day. So if your blood test shows 30 ng/ml then you need to take an additional 5000 IU per day on top of what you are already getting from the sun and diet and pills, in order to reach 80 ng/ml. But, if you are obese or if you are ill then you may need twice this dose until you become well. The bottom line is check your blood levels and keep upping the dosage of D until your blood level rise to 80-100. No toxic changes occur in the literature until blood levels reach 200 ng/ml.

Change #6
Skin color. Those at greatest risk of the above mentioned diseases happen to be those living in northern climates with dark skin. The darker your skin, the longer you need to be in the sun to make vitamin D. It is now thought that a black person living in Chicago cannot physically make enough D for 9-10 months out of the year by the sun alone. So without frequent tanning bed visits, blacks living in the north need to supplement with vitamin D more than anyone. It's a matter of life and death, or at least a matter of a healthy life or an ill life. This may explain why blacks in the U.S. have a higher incidence of many diseases than whites.

-Yours in Health

Dr. Campise, D. C. Fresno
Visit us at www.drjohnusa.com
or call (559) 930-1034 to make an appointment

Natural Alternative Holistic Chiropractor in Fresno

Welcome to the best alternative holistic health care blog in Fresno! I am really excited to stay more closely connected with you on important health issues and concerns. The easy access to unlimited amounts of information on health via the web can both help and confuse when making important health care decisions. My goal here is to help keep you well informed of what is real and useful in the health fields while at the same time helping to dispel current medical myths and nonsense.

Each blog will cover a topic based on what is current in the news, on new medical research findings, on old time tested truths that may have been forgotten, or on topics answering your specific questions.

For this first topic I would like to describe some of the services offered at my clinic here in Fresno.

First and most important is our health care philosophy which is that your body does the healing. No treatment can cure you, it can only assist your body in doing it's job, which is to keep you healthy. Symptoms are both good and bad at the same time. They are bad because they make you uncomfortable or miserable. They are good because it means your body is attempting to fix the problem. Pain hurts, but it also serves a productive purpose, to prevent you from further damaging the injured area by taking things easy or going to bed and resting. Pain only becomes dysfunctional when the problem it is indicating doesn't heal after the normal amount of time required. In other words, your body is missing something it needs when the symptoms become chronic or recurring. This usually indicates one of four things:

1) There is an underlying structural condition that needs appropriate physical rehabilitation possibly including things such as more rest, physical support like taping or casting, stretching, chiropractic adjustments, exercises, etc.

2) There is an underlying nutritional deficiency condition that needs specific treatment through one or more of the following: dietary change, vitamin/supplement therapy, or oxygen therapy.

3) There is an underlying toxicity condition that needs specific treatment through homeopathic remedies to wake up your own body's ability to detox and heal, herbal remedies to help your immune system kill unwanted microorganisms and parasites, or chelating agents to help your excretory system to get rid of heavy metals and other industrial poisons stored in your body tissues. Also, certain foods themselves can be poisons to your body if you become allergic to them or if your system fails to digest them well.

4) There is an underlying emotion or memory that is physiologically stuck in your body which is causing physical dysfunction whenever your personal stress levels rise. One of the ways to most quickly support your body to heal from this type of situation is through the cutting edge Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) that we use here at my clinic in Fresno.

Notice that drugs, medications, and surgery are not on this list. These three are treatments of last resort. Of the three, only surgery can help your body correct a problem. For example, if you have a tumor, cutting it out may be necessary to prevent your condition from worsening. But really, even in that case, the underlying cause has not been corrected. Only the end result of the condition has been corrected. Another example is surgery to correct a cleft palate, a birth defect where there is a hole between the mount and the nasal cavity. But again, the surgery didn't correct the underlying cause, which was a deficiency, toxicity, or genetic mishap during egg/sperm production or fertilization, or during embryonic or fetal development.

Medications and drugs can lesson your symptoms and at best, can buy your body time and rest so that it can heal. But if you need the medicine for the rest of your life in order to be symptom free, then it isn't really correcting the underlying cause. Remember, there is no such thing as a drug or medication deficiency. Vitamins by definition are vital for successful human life. The former are not vital and in most cases not necessary.

The natural therapies listed above are all temporarily needed until your body heals the underlying condition. At some point you will be able to stop the natural therapies and continue to be symptom free. But many choose to continue certain lifestyle changes or natural therapies for reasons of prevention, more optimal health, or for improved work, play, or sports performance.

Yours In Health,
Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.
Visit us at www.campise-chiropractor-fresno.com