Basic Nutrition is LOST Today!

The nutrition industry is starting to lean toward the same marketing strategies as big pharma companies. At the gym I work out at, they have an TV advertisement about Vitamin C. It has an ex-Olympian talking about how she would never leave her house without Vitamin C. Vitamin C alone has single-handedly changed her life and allowed her to be a professional athlete. This is just one example of a single nutrition supplement changing the life of the user. Sounds like a miracle. Why doesn't everyone taking Vitamin C become an elite athlete? Don't get me wrong, I do love some Vitamin C, but I don't think I could say it changed my life. No one nutrient can change someone's life.

No wonder people don't feel the effects of vitamins and minerals. Taking one supplement will not change the body like the claims maintain. Although one MAJOR difference between nutrients and pharmaceuticals is the side-effects and death rates. No one has ever died directly from taking vitamins. Nutrients and vitamins simply do not kill people. It is acceptable for over 100,000 people a year to die from pharmaceuticals being used correctly. Discrepancy? I think yes.

Single nutrients or supplements can have powerful effects when the body is near perfect balance. That means baseline nutrition has been established. Now, what is baseline nutrition?

-Adequate minerals. No single mineral should be given without some form of comprehensive multi-mineral supplement. I love extra magnesium and zinc, but I also give them in conjunction with a comprehensive multi-mineral supplements. A Zn Tally taste test is not only a subjective Zn test, but a total mineral balance test.

-Proper intake of omega 3s. This might take a while to establish, like months of high dose fish oil, more than 10 g per day. As the fat intake becomes more balanced some might decrease the intake, but most people feel so good they continue to take a higher dose of fish oil.

-Plant nutrients including anti-inflammatory nutrients. A plant nutrient powder is a great way to alkalize the body and promote an anti-inflammatory environment. The body works best at a pH of around 7.35. Living creates acid and we need to buffer that acid. Eating lots of plants does this. In today's toxic world we need an even more powerful boost than simply eating plants. This is where a solid and comprehensive plant nutrient supplement comes in. If someone is horrendously inflamed the addition of curcumin and ginger inflavonoids will also help.

-Vitamin D. Vitamin D, yes is one vitamin, but one thing that is unique about Vitamin D is the receptor. Every  cell in the body has Vitamin D receptors, making it very important. I don't need to preach the importance of D, just do a google search and see.

-Digestion. Proper stomach acid, gallbladder function, and enzymes are important. Making stomach acid is one of the most energy dependent processes in the body. People don't make too much stomach acid, they make to little. The LES (lower esophogeal sphictor) is pH dependent meaning the more HCl one has, the tighter the esophagus closes. No acid reflux. Acid reflux is not too much stomach acid, it is too little. Stomach acid is needed to digest food and protect the body from outside infections. The HCl challenge is a simple way to assess if one needs to supplement it. Now HCl by itself might be a supplement that can change someones life.

Once someone's baseline nutrition has been established and continually maintained for a while, this includes lifestyle, organic eating, working out and being active, and most of all a continual source of love, then and only then will single supplement really have great effect on the body.

Next time you are sick and want to reach for the Vitamin C, don't get mad when it doesn't live up to label claims. Take the next week to do an Intense Detox, and start living baseline nutrition. That way the next time sickness happens, the Vitamin C might have a great effect. It might live up to label claims.

-Dr. Kurt

Global Warming... More Like Humans Living

We have all watched, or at least heard of Al Gore's, "Inconvenient Truth" documentary about global warming. One problem I have with the whole global warming movement is that it has become a political movement. Democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives, all have views on global warming with the left leaning for it and the right leaning against it. This has done a great disservice to all humans. It has created great anger and hostility for both sides when the whole issue should be a human issue.

Yes, I said global warming is not a global issue in the sense that we are saving the Earth. It is a human issue, that we should all be part of. Global warming promotes green cleaning, less non recyclable trash, better products that lower our carbon foot print, etc. Now that is all great, but what the global warming movement does not talk about is how all these products help humans. Yes, they help clean the Earth by not contributing to greater toxification, but what they also do is decrease toxicity to humans.

Humans are exposed to over 80,000 registered chemicals, not counting all the ones not registered. BPA is one of the most talked about toxins, which we know causes cancer, as well as a myriad of other symptoms and problems, most of which are associated with estrogen toxicity. Much of the toxins humans are exposed to are what we call endocrine disruptors. This simply means toxins mess with hormones, usually increasing estrogen in some way, and decreasing or suppressing testosterone by a whole number of mechanisms. We now know that toxins are contributing to type II diabetes and metabolic syndrome. There are reports that toxins are a major contributing factor in austism. High estrogen is associated with infertility, autoimmunity, cancer risk, etc. High estrogens are also associated with toxic exposure.

We as humans should all unite under one cause, a human cause to clean up the Earth. Not only should we detoxify our bodies, but we need to detoxify the Earth. Global warming is a great movement in that it promotes detoxification of the Earth, but the problem is that it is also a political movement. The political movement is killing the effectiveness of the movement.

It is my call to unite the people and join the human movement of living cleaner and creating a clean environment to live. Global warming is an Earth movement. Let's make it a human movement. Healthier humans are the key to a healthy Earth. If we do not promote health in humans, a clean Earth does not matter.

-Dr. Kurt

Changing Habits

This week I read the book The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. The book was very interesting. He didn't bring up anything new per se but he did talk about human nature in terms of habits. For example, ever wonder why you did something without realizing it? It is because of habit.

Habits have cues, actions, and rewards. It is the action part of the habit circuit that can be changed. The cue and the reward are essentially all the same. Let's take a sugar craving. The cue is the craving, the action is eating sugar, the reward is the feeling afterward. This concept of changing the action in the habit circuit is phenomenal and every doctor should start applying this to patients.

Living healthy depends on changing the action phase of the habit circuit. Let's take a look at the average American. One gets home after a long day at work. Relaxation and eating is all that is left on the mind after a long day at work. One can either grab fast food, veg out, and sit in front of the TV all night or live for tomorrow. Vegging out in front of the TV is not living for tomorrow, it is existing until tomorrow. To change this habit one must first alter the action phase.

The cue is getting off work and wanting to eat and relax. The action is eating and relaxing, with the reward being relaxed at the end of the night. To change the habit, the action phase must be altered. Instead of classic American relaxing, how about this. At around 4pm eat a nice piece of organic chicken breast with some almonds and fruit. At 5pm, when work is done and it is time to relax, head straight to the gym to a nice workout session with the trainer. The action of needing to relax was just altered. After a solid 45 min workout, the feeling of relaxation and accomplishment kick in. The post workout shake quenches a little hunger, as you know when you get home a nice salad, cooked salmon, and sweet potatoes are prepared, as you planned ahead for the evening. Now relaxing is healthy. You changed the action phase. Instead of fast food and vegging in front of the TV you added healthy food and a workout. All it took was some planning. The cue and the reward are the same.

Changing a lifestyle can be difficult. The concept of habit changing, specifically, changing the action phase, is a perfect way to help facilitate this change. The cues and rewards can essentially be the same, but the action is dependent on you. Change the action and change your life. In time the cues and the rewards will change as well.

Paraphrased from Dean Ornish: People don't think of lifestyle change as something they see today like a drug or pill. They see it as something they do now to get a couple extra years at the end of their life. That simply isn't true. Healthy lifestyle changes genes. Once people start living healthier they start feeling better and the positive loop has begun. Increasing lifespan isn't the goal. Joy is the goal. Joy is what will sustain healthy lifestyle change. Joy.

I will add love as well. The more love in one's life the more joy.

Dr. K

Ambition

Many people talk about having ambition. What exactly is ambition? Merriam-Webster states ambition is an ardent desire for rank, fame and power. What is the difference between ambition and dreaming? I believe the difference is ambition is something believable. A dream of sorts, that others, as well as yourself, believe in passionately. Ambition also includes all means to achieve that dream. Ambition is the road to making dreams come true.

Some self-help books and different get rich quick companies talk about the dream. They try and package ambition into something anyone can do and make millions of dollars doing. That is wrong. Do you know anyone that went to a get rich quick seminar and now is a multimillionaire?

Ambition is something that grows from inside you, but must be fed with the right things in order to grow into something great. Being from an up and coming younger generation, I believe ambition today requires different steps than in the past. The commonality is passion, without passion ambition cannot be fed.

In today's world, we as American's are the most unhealthy generation of all time. The essential beginning after passion is health. Specifically brain health. If one's brain does not work properly, or to full potential, ambition has no means to grow.

Step 1: Get Healthy

Now this is no simple task. This requires a lifestyle change, a change forever. If it doesn't come directly from the ground, don't eat it. If the meat isn't grass fed or organically raised, don't eat  it. Gluten? Never eat it again. Leans, greens, nuts and seeds. That should be a mantra. Eat natural, live natural, be natural.

Step 2: Live Green

This simply means stop exposing yourself to unwarranted toxins. The green movement needs not be about the Earth and the Globe. It needs to be about humans. We need to go green because we need to decrease our toxic exposure as humans. Most personal care products contain cancer causing agents and endocrine dysruptors. That means they alter hormones in the body. Get them out and spring for as natural as possible. If you have body odor, it is time to detox.

Step 3: Detox

A minimum of 2 full weeks of the year need to be solely dedicated to detoxification. This means a complete detox program formulated for you. We are bombarded with toxins everyday, and even the healthiest people on Earth need to annually detox. Detoxification programs help the body work better.

Step 4: Balancing the Brain

Balancing the brain. All the steps to this point have begun the process of balancing the brain. Protein for breakfast is key to driving dopamine and norepinephrine in the morning. Carbohydrates drive serotonin and should only be eaten in the evening, that is if you are lean and workout twice a day. Balancing mineral status is pivotal. Vitamin D, Mg, Zn, Vitamin E, and Omega 3's need to be supplemented and balanced in order for the brain to work.

Next, specific nutrients and herbs can be used to boost brain power. This needs to be customized for each individual and vary greatly in regards to stress type.

Step 5: Ambition

Now that the brain and your lifestyle have begun to be balanced in a healthy way, ambition has the roots to grow. Think of steps 1-4 as fertilizer for the step 5, the tree. Ambition needs to be fed in order to grow. Ambition also requires a plan. A means to accomplish that plan. Finally, it needs follow through.

This is a great outline to create an environment to foster ambition. Remember, ambition needs to be fed, and this feeding begins with lifestyle and properly supporting the brain. Without the right fertilizer ambition will whither and die.
 

Attraction and Hormones

When was the last time you were sitting at the local Starbuck's and saw a man who had the physique of a pro athlete walk in holding hands with a women who looked similar to Precious. There is a reason we don't see sights like this too often. People date with similar hormone profilew. Sometimes we see an obese women with a skinny man, but are they dating out of their hormone profiles? My answer would be no. They are of equivalent profiles, but differing weights.

So many different theories on attraction exist today. Facial symmetry states we are attracted to people with equivalent facial symmetry. Some attraction experts think we are attracted to people whose immune system differs with ours in a way that would compliment offspring. This immune theory works with smell. We smell our mate to find attraction. We are attracted to people with the same or complimenting personalities states other experts yet. Some say we are attracted to people within our same walk of life, as in years of schooling, social status, economic status, etc. Still yet on a more primal level, we are simply attracted to women who appear to be good child carriers; wider hips, hourglass figure, softer cheekbones, etc. Whereas men need to have characteristics of high testosterone; high cheek bones, broad shoulders, hair all over, etc. What is the correct theory?

I believe it is a combination of all these theories, but with a modern day twist. We are attracted to our hormonal equivalent. When combining all of the other theories the final and most intriguing part of the picture is we are attracted to a person who has a similar hormone profile. That means a male with above average testosterone will be attracted to a women with above average testosterone. A women who is extremely estrogen toxic will be attracted to a man with low testosterone because of estrogen toxicity. Their hormone status will be equally as pathetic.

This theory makes sense on a number of different levels. First, we have known for years that a women on birth control, excess estrogen, is more attracted to the features of the room than a naked man in front of her. We know the opposite of a women not taking birth control. She is turned on the mere sight of the naked man; his muscles, hair, smell, and all his nakedness. Why does the estrogen toxic women not care about these things? Estrogen effects the brain. It also changes what she is attracted to. The same thing is true in men. Men with high testosterone look at women that will meet their needs. Lean, healthy, shapely in the right ways, and strong. Men with deficient testosterone, estrogen toxic men, obese men, or sick men find women attractive in different ways. Yes, they are still attracted to the traditional boobs or butt, but one striking difference emerges. They are not interested in the other things. They fail to notice the signs of a terrible hormone profile. The don't notice the extra fat on the triceps, or under the armpits, or around the waist. I have seen diabetic men actually enjoy women are look diabetic as well. 'Extra pudding.' This should disturb you.

This theory also makes sense in ways of lifestyle. We cannot be compatible with someone who does not live like we do. If a male has high testosterone, proper thyroid function, adequate growth hormone, sleeps 8 hours a night, eats organic food, detoxes regularly, takes supplements, weight trains, etc. how will he be able to be with a women who is deficient in all these categories. Hormone balance is key, not only for good health, but also for attraction.

Estrogen receptors belong to the nuclear receptor family. This means that when estrogen binds to one of its receptor types is has the ability to alter genetic expression down stream. That means excess estrogen can affect a number a different body processes, from mentration, muscle growth, and specifically brain function. Estrogen can alter the way our brain works, therefore, in theory it can drastically change what and how we are attracted to people.

Now it is time to take a good hard look at yourself. Now look at your partner. Do you both carry fat in similar areas of your body? How compatible are your lifestyles? More importantly how do you hormones match up? If you are single, take a hard look at yourself, and now think real hard about what you are attracted to? Does it match up? Next time you are out on the town, take a look around. What do you see?

Hormones attracted to like hormones.

-Dr. Kurt Waples

Chronic Pain

Pain

Pain is a very complex entity. It can come in many different shapes and sizes. We have a pill for every type of pain people feel, and yet we are having a pain epidemic. We have pain syndromes, such as fibromyalgia, which translated to layman’s terms means muscle fiber pain. Muscle fiber pain! Pain is so complex we don’t even know what it is. So we call it a fancy name which means muscle fiber pain. Conventional/allopathic treatments options prove this. One common treatment for fibromyalgia is antidepressant medication. Does this make sense?

Pain is multifaceted. It combines three components of health; structure, biochemistry, and emotions. Structure is the bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, etc. making up the frame of the body. Biochemistry is the internal makings of the body; the ways we interact with food and everything in our environment. Finally, emotion is what we think, feel, and love. Emotion is our soul. Pain does not affect only one component of health. It is like a virus, and it infects all components of health.

Chronic pain requires all aspects of health to be addressed. As pain continues and becomes chronic, the emotional and biochemical components become more involved and infinitely more complicated. This is where a knowledgeable practitioner, one who addresses structure, biochemistry, and emotion, is needed. The cause needs to be found, addressed, and ultimately corrected.

How can the cause be found? The key to finding the cause is by having accurate, objective ways of assessment. Applied kinesiology is one assessment tool, when used objectively and scientifically, can accurately assess the structure and give powerful insight into ways to address the biochemistry and emotions. To accurately assess biochemistry a comprehensive history, labs, and physical assessment are all needed to completely understand and accurately treat. Once the body has been assessed in a way which addresses the three components of health, only then can the body begin to heal.

Remember, pain is not a single entity. It affects all aspects of health. It only makes sense to address all aspects of health in order to heal pain. Anyone who has, or is experiencing chronic pain understands how deep chronic pain cuts into all aspects of health. America has a fascination with covering up symptoms. This is evident as we are the most drugged nation in the history of the world. The truth of the matter is people are in pain. People are seeking answers. People are seeking solutions. Isn’t it time to seek out a practitioner who understands this and seeks the cause and real solutions? We don’t need more pills to cover up the pain. We need a means to address, understand, become educated, and eliminate pain. Please seek out doctors who want to understand you as a person, understand your condition, seek real answers, and offer a treatment to heal. Don’t accept treatments to cover symptoms. Take health back into your own hands and demand HEALTH care.

-Dr. Kurt Waples

Structural Emotions

The Interweaving of Emotions

Have you ever experienced a release of emotion and had no idea where it stemmed from? This is a frequent occurrence in my practice. I always understood that emotions are weaved into certain types of trauma, but didn't quite understand how they can be molded into all types of pain, structural issues, mental problems, etc. 

One place on the body which seems to hold a lot of emotion is the cranium. When adjusting the skull emotions can be released. Emotions can be released from any part of the body with almost any type of modality or treatment, but the skull seems to be a powerful epicenter. This does make sense, considering the brain is housed there. Almost all emotion seems to stem from the brain. It would only make sense that our body would compensate emotional overload with a structural change in order to obtain a new state of equilibrium. This compensation is a cranial subluxation.

In today's high tech medicine type world, there is no place for emotions, let alone emotional related structural problems. This is why most of my colleagues have no understanding of the emotional subluxation. An emotional subluxation is a misalignment or structural problem, which will not be 100% corrected until the emotional component has been released or addressed. This requires the body to unwind. Sometimes adjustments will contradict each other. When you take a step back, it makes sense. The body is unpredictable, so doesn't it make sense that it can unwind in an unpredictable way? YES.

Emotions are intertwined into the body. Emotions cut deep and form many layers. Unwind one layer, and there lies many more to be unwound. A perfect example of this emotional interweaving is a trigger point. When releasing a trigger point the pain will radiate, stay in one spot, be dull pain, be stabbing pain, change radiating patterns, move up and and down the body, change frequencies, tingle, go numb, etc. Emotions cut the same way into the body. 

Next time you are visiting your doctor for structural work and have an over abundance of emotions leave your body. Thank your doctor for having the right tools to unwind your body. You are better and more in touch with yourself after each layer removed.

-Dr. Kurt

Feet Like a Hunter-Gatherer

When I was a teenager I had the belief that my feet were flat, and that was due to some bad genetics. The only way to change my flat, defective feet was to wear orthotics. I had this belief until the second year of chiropractic school, when one day I took the orthotics out of my shoes and never wore them again. I didn't know at the time why I did it. I just knew it was the right thing. It made sense that some people might have flatter feet than others. 

One critical thing I noticed at the time I took my orthotics out of my shoes was how weak my feet felt. My feet felt weak and sore. Not a plantar fasciitis sore, but a muscle sore. My feet muscles were sore. Now this was interesting to me. After years of wearing orthotics in my shoes I thought my feet should be perfect. Why were they sore? 

My feet were sore because the muscles were getting a workout. The muscles in my feet were starting to shape and strengthen properly. My feet were becoming what they were supposed to be. Strong, powerful, sturdy supports for my body. After I started attending Applied Kinesiology seminars the reasons why I took the orthotics out began to make sense. Every single body is different. Every single body functions at a different optimal. Every single body has a different movement pattern. Every single foot is different, and who are we to try and make every foot have the 'optimal' arch? Then, I started thinking, 'What does this do to the neurology?' Changing someone's foot has to mess with the neurology. It changes the way people feel the ground. This cannot be good.

Last week while doing research on the Hunter-Gatherer lifestyle I read some articles on shoes and running that supported the original epiphany I had in the second year of chiropractic school. Certain shoes, usually the more expensive ones, tend to splint the foot, cast the foot in the shoe which ultimately causes atrophy of the musculature, shortening of the tendons, weakening of the foot and lower leg muscles, stiffening of the ligaments, etc. This is exactly what I felt in my feet once I took the orthotics out. (One other thing I left out from above was I also started wearing barefoot type shoes, like the Nike FreeRun.) Now what is the consequences of having weak muscles in the foot and lower leg? Injuries such as plantar fasciitis, ankle sprain, Achilles tendonitis, hamstring tears, and low back pain. These injuries are so prevalent in today's world. I can't think of a single person who hasn't had at least one of those injuries. So, with all the advancement in shoe technology we are making our feet weaker, and ultimately, our entire structure from the ground up weaker.

The journal Ergonomics has an article which specifically addresses this issue. The article states that although barefoot running may not be advantageous for all in today's world, a barefoot simulated shoe will greatly improve orthopedic health in the long term. So, moving back to a simpler shoe may be better for orthopedic health than the expensive alternatives. This is great news, and exciting to see that now we are using technology to better orthopedic health. There is a huge barefoot movement going on right now, and many different shoe companies have great barefoot simulated shoes. I would recommend everyone start wearing barefoot simulated shoes some of the time, walk barefoot in the grass whenever possible, take a walk in the woods because we know a nature scene calms us down more than an urban environment, and finally live like our ancestors. By that I mean eat real food, exercise, early to bed, early to rise, and most importantly LOVE.

When strengthening the foot, it might be a good idea to see a chiropractor, one who specifically uses kinesiology to balance the neurology. As the foot changes and becomes stronger, good structural care will be pivotal. Think of a broken arm. Once the cast comes off you go to physical therapy to help with proper healing and strengthening. Once you unleash your foot from the years of casting, it will take a chiropractic kinesiologist to properly align and aid in the strengthening process.

Live like your ancestors, but do it in a smart way. Use technology to better your life, as with the new lines of barefoot simulated shoes. Try them out!

-Dr. Kurt

References:

Lieberman DE, Venkadesan M, Werbel WA, et al: Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners. Nature 2010;463:531-535. PMID: 20111000

Digby CJ, Lake MJ, Lees A: High-speed non-invasive measurement of tibial rotation during the impact phase of running. Ergonomics 2005;48:1623-1637 PMID: 16338728

Berman MG, Jonides J, Kaplan S: The cognitive benefits of interacting with nature. Psychol Sci 2008;19:1207-1212. PMID: 19121124

 

You can't fight feelings with logic

A couple weekends ago and throughout my professional life so far this is something I have learned to embrace. Sometimes logic tells us to do one thing, but our feelings (our gut) tells us another. Recently, I have given this advice to a number of different people, all experiencing different problems. It seems to make sense and ease the decision making. 

As a kinesiologist, I see people everyday that are ignoring feelings, and quite possibly ignoring all logic as well. As we begin to ignore feelings we start to lose touch with ourselves, our body, our mind, our spirituality. Once we start ignoring this innate sense of feeling, our body becomes detached from our soul. Is this one of the reasons for disease? Are we as a society detached from feeling?

The answer is a daunting YES. We as Americans, are very detached from feeling. Look at the progression of TV throughout the last couple decades. We have lost the ability to feel and now think it is pleasurable to not feel. One major way we have stopped feeling is our lifestyle. We live for pleasure, but don't find it pleasurable to live. We treat our bodies in ways that would make our Hunter-Gatherer counterparts cringe, and probably make fun of us, if not destroy us for being inferior. We take drugs without questioning the consequence, eat processed foods genetically engineered to be addictive, we pollute the Earth without question, give birth control to young teens knowing it increases their risk of cancer later on in life. What is the logic behind this? 

Is it logical to FEEL like crap? Is it logical to live in pain and not try to correct the problem? Is is logical to take pain blocking medication and not change the reasons for pain? It is time to change this epidemic of unfeeling. It is time to use logic to feel properly. Time to logically feel. Treat your body like a temple. As Dr. Bob Rakowski to eloquently states, and I personally think embraces the concept of using logic to feel:

EAT RIGHT

DRINK RIGHT

THINK RIGHT

MOVE RIGHT

SLEEP RIGHT 

POOP RIGHT 

TALK RIGHT

And probably the most important one of all is LOVE RIGHT.

Love is a feeling. Love doesn't know logic. 

-Dr. Kurt

Innocence 

Last night I went on a walk around midnight. It was cool outside and very pleasant. The air smelled nice, the sounds were that of night. The occasional car drove by, the other night owls were out walking around, and high school kids scurrying through the alleys, just happy to be out and away from the house. It was these very high school kids running around, 3 girls, 2 boys, that got me thinking. They seemed to all have this innocence which was priceless. 

As I walked past them I saw the boys and girls all at arm distance from each other. There was awkward laughing and giggling. The girls talking to the girls, and the boys talking to each other. Innocence was still a virtue. These young teenagers weren't out experimenting with any number of things, they were simply enjoying company. The boys thinking, wow we are hanging out with girls, and the girls thinking wow these boys are so cute. Pure innocence.

Now onto another note about innocence. Doesn't the world seem so much nicer before we know more about it? Why does the pursuit of knowledge lead to loss of innocence? For example, think of food. When we are kids we know good food and we know bad food. The difference is good food is the food mom makes for dinner, and bad is food is that food from the local gas station. Now as we get older and more knowledgeable we start looking at food differently, yet again. We see processed food and real food. Some of us even move a step further and see organic food, quality free-range meats, eggs, etc. from conventional food. It is this step where we begin to loose even more innocence. We start seeing the evils of the conventional food industry. 87% of all antibiotics are not used in the treatment of humans, but the treatment of animals in feed lots. Pesticides, which cause cancer, sickness, and death are sprayed on our food, and that food is marketed as healthy. Chemical companies own life and genetically modify it and claim it makes us healthier and is better for the planet. Studies out of Europe have confirmed the exact opposite. GMOs shut down 2 primary detox organs, the liver and kidneys. The question then remains what kind of health are they helping? The answer is this so called 'healthcare' industry. Who makes money from this 'innocence' of the American public on the issue of food?

This is just one case of innocence in American society. I like the word innocence because once people become educated about what is really going on it is a loss of innocence. It is something you will never get back. It is like your first kiss, your first girlfriend, your first sexual encounter, etc. You can be naive over and over again, but you can only loose innocence once before a new baseline is established. The new baseline is then set at your new level of innocence.

Now back to the innocent teenagers in the night. It was pleasant seeing such a wealth of innocence walk by me, but they too will someday become less innocent. Let's hope this loss of innocence will lead to a better, healthier life. For all of you reading this, let your loss of innocence in life be for the better. Loose your innocence with knowledge. Become smarter and spread that knowledge.

-Dr. Kurt