Non-Mechanical (not from trauma) of frozen shoulder

-  2 to 4 times higher in Diabetes than in general population

-  common in Type I/II Diabetes, increasing with age and duration of Diabetes

- the prevalence of Diabetes in clients with frozen shoulder is 76%

Possible causes of the frozen shoulder are poor circulation, inflammation and collagen repair problems.

In our practice we’ve had many cases of traumatic & non traumatic frozen shoulder, the common denominator was sub-conscious unresolved emotional stress and poor diet.  As these issues are resolved, shoulder physiology improves and heals.

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

I would add the greatest component is their conscious thinking and whats stuck in the subconscious brain creating autonomic imbalances, without the person even knowing consciously they are creating a health time bomb!  Here’s the kicker.  “In animal studies, Victoza caused thyroid tumors, including thyroid cancer!”  Other problems include pancreatitis, stomach pain, kidney and liver dysfunction, an increased risk of low blood sugar, headache, nausea, diarrhea to name a few…

Here’s the truth:  We develop symptoms due to our choices and habits.

For a person to truly heal they must:

Be willing to change

Have a successful coach or mentor

Follow through with advice

Be patient:  There is no cure for healing, the body will heal on it’s own, it is created to self regulate.

My question is: Are you willing to make symptoms and disease and unnecessary?

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips

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

There is a pervasive belief in out society that happiness is external to myself.  I am therefore always in a state of lack and desire.  So I must look for the cause of my happiness or the solution to my symptoms externally.  This is the proverbial dog chasing its tail.  Even if it catches its tail, it’ll end up biting itself and causing pain, instead of happiness.

According to Dr. David Ludwig from Boston’s Children Hospital, statistics validate 1 in 3 children today are obese (JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association).  He began to study genes and switched to the environmental causes of obesity and the effects obesity creates in adulthood (chronic pain, inflammatory conditions, heart disease, stroke, type II diabetes).  What he concluded is that it is a lifestyle.

What this says to me is that it is our beliefs and habits that turn on certain genes, which create our body physiology and state of health or ill health.   This brings us back to willingness.

Are you willing to:

1.  eat different than you have been or were taught or raised with?

2.  drink differently than you have been or were raised with?

3.  exercise differently than you have been or were taught?

4.  think differently than you have been or were raised with?

If you are call us today to begin your journey to optimum health happiness and success!

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips

Heart disease, stroke, type II diabetes (and all of it’s complications) joint disease, all inflammatory processes, hormonal/blood sugar regulation and immune regulatory syndromes are greatly aggravated if not generated by childhood then adult obesity.

According to the Center for Disease Control, children are getting more calories than ever before.  And I add, these calories are empty and laced with foreign hormones.

In 2006, McDonald’s spent $520 million dollars in advertising and toys to market children’s meals.  Once you’re there with your kids for the quick meal, you and your children will consume a meal to high in calories and hormones, saturated fat, sugar, table salt and devoid of whole grains (B vitamins for the heart).

Perhaps a different behavior, out of love and honor of ourselves and children, would be to prepare whole snacks when traveling and eating healthy (see previous blogs) meals that promote childhood health and will lead into active and mindful adulthood.

Here’s some quick tips

1.  If it’s not coming out of the ground, a tree or animal – don’t eat it (pseudo foods, processed foods, hydrated oils, hormone added, pesticide added…)

2.  Eliminate and minimize stimulatory foods – sugar, coffee, tea, colas, sodas, table salt, alcohol, caffeine drinks, diet sodas, junk food etc. which send our body’s biochemistry soaring out of balance causing a variety of symptoms including: multiple sclerosis, fatigue, weight gain, skin conditions, brain fog, behavioral problems . . . etc

3.  Avoid non-organic, chemical and hormone laden foods. Eat whole, fresh, natural, organic: brown rice, meat, fish, poultry, whole grains, legumes, seeds, nuts, veggies and fruits.

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

Between 0 to 7 years old data is input into our brains, some truth based, others inappropriate and outright falsehood.  All programmed into our brains, as how to perceive and respond in an appropriate, healthy and life generating response.  When trauma occurs in forms of physical, chemical, emotional and mental stimuli, the development of the brain gets stuck in a defense loop and the computer (brain) learns that’s what out there and in here (me) is not safe.  So I’m perpetually fighting tigers (perceived illusion of threat) within and without.  Here is a short list of how our perceptions effect our bodies.

Brain

-Glucocorticoids during stress reaction damage the hippo-campus interfering with long-term and spatial navigation (posture!)

-Alters nerve cell structure; behavioral consequences, depression.

Breasts

-Feelings/perceptions of social isolation (I feel all alone) can contribute to being 3 times more susceptible to developing breast cancer.

Liver

- Glucocorticoids of stress reaction; lead to inflammation, cancer, blood sugar imbalance.

Bones

-Inflammation creates calcium absorption imbalances and a decrease in osteoblasts (cells that make bone).

Heart

-Post Hurricane Katrina there was a 3 fold increase in heart attacks.  Bottled up anger for any reason or justification (it makes no difference)  increases risk of heart attack.

Abdomen

-High stress related hormone cortisol increases belly fat, blocked arteries and Type II Diabetes.  Various studies at Wake Forest University and U.S. Navy indicate high demand jobs are associated with diarrhea, IBS and other GI disorders.

Sexual Reproductive Health

-As Glucocorticoids go up growth hormone goes down. This creates problems with ovulation, sperm count and sexual activity.

Skin

-Acne, fever-blisters and rosacea (sub-clinical undiagnosed lupus) are all indicators of chronic hypersensitive individuals, creating immune imbalances and skin problems.

So take a deep breath in through your nose and out your mouth, lower your shoulders, remember not to take anything personally and realize that anything outside of your own skin is out of your control, so why stress over it?

In Health & Service,

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

The National Institutes of Health recently published information stating 66% of Americans are overweight and 30% are obese.  Children of 12 years of age are now presenting with type II diabetes and 17% of children 2-19 year old are obese.

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology states the BMI as the primary indication for disease and death. As BMI increases so does disease and mortality.

I’ve written many blogs on exercise, diet and attitude changes.  My question to you is – If you are in this boat, when will you honor and respect yourself enough to be willing to change, before it’s too late!