The leading cause of death in the United States is heart disease.  A whopping 26% of all deaths.  The next is cancer.  Scientific studies tell us that to increase all forms of vegetables and fruits will increase our natural immunity, physiology towards health and alkalization.

2. Engage Your Body

Physical activity promotes a healthy, lean, muscular body and studies have now proven that regular exercise also has a causal role on how long and well we can live!  Qi Sun & collegues from Harvard School of Public Health looked at data from 13,535 participants where female nurses reported physcial activity level.  The team found that women who lived to 70 (10 + years after the study began) had higher levels of physical activity and were less likely to have chronic diseases- heart, physical, cognitive or mental imparements.  So find some activity you enjoy and just do it!

3.  Decrease Inflammation

Acute inflammation is a protective mechanism of the body.  Chronic inflammation is a stuck system which leads to the top 60+ diseases in the United States.  The #1 cause of acidosis and related inflammation is toxic negative thinking, the #2 cause is acidic eating.  Abdominal Breathing, EmPower March, Journaling, Forgiveness, other forms of meditative activities (yoga, praying, singing, etc.) all have profound effects on the brain, body-mind connection, neurology and hormones which will shut down the inflammatory cascade.

4.  Brain Plasticity

Science now tells us that when we choose different ways of thinking and behaving our brain literally rewires (disconnects from the old pattern).  Studies at Brandeis University in Massachusets showed increasing mental activity (reading, writing, cross-word puzzles etc) whether an individual has a higher or lower education, increased memory tests.

5.  Improve Your Intimate Relationships

We are relational beings and the deeper we grow together  the healthier we feel!  In a survey of 3,000 men and women ages 57 to 85 years, researchers at the University of Chicago learned that seniors who maintained strong/functioning sexual and intimate relationships generally have better health and well being!

So in the words of B.E.S.T. founder and developer Dr. MT Morter Jr.  Love them more, expect nothing in return and health, happiness and success is sure to follow!

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips BA, BS, D.C.

The logical conclusion is what creates free radical damage?  Here’s a short list of stimuli that turn on pro-inflammatory genes.

1.  High glycemic index foods that create insulin secretion: once activated in the gut, immune cells crave sugar, use up serotonin,  creating a serotonin deficiency in the brain which results in sugar blues/ “crashes” and more craving of sugar.

2.  Chronic and acute stressful fight or flight thinking activates these same immune supporting cells in the gut and cortisol an anti-inflammatory hormone begins to act like insulin, creating blood sugar imbalances.  When cortisol secretion becomes chronic, receptor sites on cells become cortisol resistant: more uncontrolled inflammation.

3.  Skipping meals creates cortisol release (see above)

4.  Excess athletic training at high heart rates creates cortisol imbalance (see above) , inflammation and many other health issues.

5.  Chronic activation (repetitive) of the innate immunity appears to be the underlying basis of a wide host of degenerative diseases: high blood pressure, type II diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, all inflammatory conditions (arthritis, colitis, sinusitis, thyroiditis…anything followed by “itis”), auto-immune (shogrens syndrome, lupus, SLE) and many more..

Research shows that in some instances pathogens (disease causing microbes) or industrial pollutants can be present.  However in the majority of cases no specific exposure or pathogen can be found.  We know this as B.E.S.T. practitioners too well.  The key to understanding chronic immune activation is current, recent and distant unresolved emotional experiences.  Some which can be remembered and others which can not be consciously recalled, yet nevertheless act as a constant autopilot for inappropriate immune physiology.  Once the experience is balanced and the person learns not to resist or attempt to control life and embrace it as it is, the mind and the body become more appropriate, no longer responding in fight/flight and true healing becomes a natural by product of normal homeostasis.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips BA, BS, D.C.

At the University of Chicago, Van Cauter et al, in the course of 4 studies demonstrated that sleep depravation, night after night, creates a hormonal release stimulating appetites to rise.  There was a 24% increase in appetite for junk food (bread, pasta, chips, cookies, pizza, cake, etc.).  This is not surprising since fight/flight physiology is dependant upon quick energy release.  They not only found the appetite for junk food increased but their bodies did not process glucose efficiently.  As glucose builds up in the blood the body secretes more insulin to bring the sugar into the cells.  As this cycle continues, the cell walls become RESISTANT to insulin.  Thus the glucose can not get into the cell effectively and begins to create the symptoms associated with type II diabetes.  Excess insulin is also a signal to the body to store fat. 

Also of note, is that with sleep depravation the stress hormone cortisol begins to increase in the evening; along with a double spike of growth hormone.  The researchers beleive these are other factors which affect insulin metabolism negatively.  Van Cauter states that after prolongued sleep deprivation we loose the ability to tell when we need sleep.  There are many more functions that can become altered.

The key is awareness.  Become aware of your 6 Essential Choices and begin to change.  Willingness to change, learning and growing are the hallmarks of a healthy human being.

Here’s some clues:

1.  Most experts agree (both current and past) that being in bed by 10 pm is a good target.

2.  Keep light and electronics out of or at a minumum (turn off if possible) in your bedroom. 

3.  If you of your spouse snores: consider breathe right nasal strips

4.  Change your diet: keep evening meals to light protein and veggies.  Skip the junk, dairy & wheat that create congestion.

5.  Cut back on Alcohol

6.  Get exercise during the day

7.  Get a Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.) treatment minimum once a month to create a well balced energy field and autonomic nervous system.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips Jr., B

A Danish study published by the British Medical Journal on 5,000 Caucasian males over the age of 40 found that those men who were clinically out of shape and worked longer than the 40 hr work week were 50% more likely to die of heart disease (USA’s #1 killer) than those who worked the same number of hours, yet were in better physical fitness.

Another study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests that the more time we spend sitting down, the shorter our lives may be!

It is theorized that while we sit we engage in other behaviors that may not be healthy (i.e. snacking) and omitting behaviors that are healthy (i.e. exercising). 

Sitting for prolongued periods, in women, also showed a greater incidence of cancer while across the board for both genders cardiovascular disease increased; along with various markers for glucose, blood pressure, triglycerides and other cardiovascular disease.  Overall it seems women had a greater early death-rate than men (40% – 20%).  Researchers have not been able to explain this phenomenon. 

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips Jr., BA, BS, DC

Some alarming statistics that his research revealed:

-out of 73 million children:

21 million (1 out of 3) suffer from one or another chronic disease

58 thousand threatened by cancer

2.5 million birth defects

310,000 cases of lead poisoning

6 million with Asthma

12 million with a developmental disorder (ADD to learning disabilities)

According to Dr. David Wallinga, Director of the Food and Health Program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, “We’ve created a society with around 80,000 industrial chemicals, most have not been tested.”

We know that these pollutants show up in the food (meats), water, air and produce etc.  Since we’re at the top of the food chain and mammals, it primarily shows up in neurologic and hormonal disruption, interference and mutation.

A great way to protect and detox these pollutants is as follows:

1.  Eat organic when/if possible

2.  Reverse Osmosis/filtered water

3.  Green Supplements: Alka Green and Green20

4.  Liver/Bowel Cleanse:  Fruits, veggies and nuts for 14 days

5.  Remove poisonous chemicals from your home and garden

6.  Some time of activity that makes you sweat which will help in the detox process

7.  Detox footbath’s

8.  Some type of therapy while your detoxing to help make this process easier

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips BA,BS,D.C.

The negative side-effects of choosing to smoke are:

COPD or emphysema

Heart disease

Abdominal aneurysm

Various forms of cancer: lung, bladder, uterus, cervix, esophagus, stomach, mouth and throat to name a few.

A 2010 published study found high cause/effect relationship to smoking and depression.

As with all major addictions (work, sex, gambling, drugs and alcohol) and other compulsive disorders (ADD, Trictotelomania, ODD, etc.) the addiction is a narcissistic means to an end (happiness, safety, security, personal power, identity, value, worth, etc.)

The key is are you willing to look honestly at the facts concerning your health risks and take informed action?  If not your habitual choices (vices) can have extreme consequences (death).

I have personally helped many people transform from addict to victor by supporting their system nutritionally, detoxing the body naturally, unlocking unconscious sabotage patterns/perceptions and coaching the client to take charge when the thought or desire to smoke is evoked.  The alternative to Health-care, is drugs/surgery and eventually an untimely checkout.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips BA.,BS.,D.C.

Consider these statistics

-  In a study of 89,941 nurses with type II diabetes, over 16 years, authors found 91% could be attributed to habits.

-  Health care costs could be cut by $24 billion if Americans took just four supplements over the next five years!       Can anyone say Alka Green?

-  Hyman, Ornish and Roizen reported results of the EPIC study involving 23,00 subjects: 4 simple behaviors and habits; diet, exercise, body fat, not smoking affected health positively.  By adhering to lifestyle changes, 93% of diabetes, 81% heart attack, 50% strokes and 38% of all cancers were prevented.

So we can see it’s not just about acute pain or symptom management, but overall lifestyle coaching that is available though weekly/monthly B.E.S.T. care and homework that will make the true difference in your health quality, and quantity.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips

Scandinavian studies show that 58 -100 % of site specific cancers had an environmental origin.  Harvard’s center for cancer preventions report in 1996 estimates that of all cancer deaths, 30% are due to tobacco use, 30% to adult diet and obesity, 5% due to occupational factors and 2% due to pollution.  A total of 91% of type II diabetes and 82% of coronary artery disease in 84,000 nurses can be attributed to habits (see six essential choices) and so-called high risk behavior- i.e. body mass > 25, low intake of vegetable/fibers, high polyunsaturated fat/trans-fat, high gycemic load, smoking and inactive lifestyle.

So what the studies and statistics and leading Epigeneticist’s (Bruce Lipton PHD) are telling us is the majority of deaths from chronic health conditions in the U.S. are of environmental origin – our choices and habits.

My question to you is are you just interested in your health, happiness and success? You’ll fold/quit as soon as obstacles create discomfort.  Or are you passionately committed to do whatever it takes, whenever, however, with no attachment to outcome, to be abundantly healthy, happy and successful.

If you think you can, you’re right. If you think you can’t, you’re also right !  The choice is yours !

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips

2009 -  766,130 men, 713,220 women diagnosed with cancer.

What can you do today to reduce risk?

1.  Decrease body weight

- Increase veggies, fruits & nuts

- Drink R.O. water

- Aerobic exercise

2.  Reduce toxic load

- Cut out sugar, high fructose corn syrup and sweeteners from your diet

- Go Organic with meats – less hormones for your body to deal with

3.  Take natural, whole food supplements that support body detoxification, normalization and self revitalization (there’s no power in a drug or surgery to be healthy, ALL health must come from within).

4.  Regularly cleanse your body

- Do a series of 10-20 detox foot baths

- Do a liver-bowel-kidney cleanse

5. Detox your thoughts

- Immediately DROP (without blame, excuse or justification) ANY negative thought about yourself, others, life, God, past, present, future and begin to dwell on what  you are GRATEFUL for.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips