Family Care Chiropractic

By Dr. Bruno Contro
Family Care Chiropractic

I recently received a very interesting article from Dr. Howard Loomis. Dr. Loomis is considered today the father of enzyme nutrition. He developed a system of examinations that allows the Health Care Provider to zone in exactly on the patient's nutritional deficiency,  allowing the Doctor to supplement the patient’s diet with crucial food enzymes that are absent or taken out of our food in order to increase its shelf life. In other words one of the most essential elements of the foods we eat, the part that helps our body digest, is missing.

He goes on to explain how most Health Care Practitioners aren’t doing or aren’t even aware of the 3 most important factors of an exam when choosing the appropriate vitamin or supplement for the patient. So next time your doctor, nutritionist, dietician or any other health care provider suggests you take a supplement, make sure they are checking for: 

• Number One: 

The state of your extracellular fluid (fluid that surrounds the cells in your body). It is essential that the health care provider studies, examines, and determines if you are too acid or too alkaline. This is the single most important issue to consider, because it will determine how the supplement will affect your body. Sadly most Doctors don't do this.

• Number Two:

Find out WHY you are deficient in that specific vitamin or ingredient in the supplement in the first place. Many of us have this mentality that the reason a person might be deficient in a specific vitamin like E, C, K, B, etc… is because that person isn’t getting enough of that vitamin through their diet. Dr. Loomis explains how this is seldom the problem. So if the deficiency is not necessarily the lack of that specific vitamin in the diet, what is the problem? Simple, the body is under stress and there is an inability to digest and properly absorb that nutrient. He says that this is almost always the problem.

• Number Three:

Is the supplement being used with a treatment plan to change the diet, improve digestion and waste removal? Most Health Care Professionals will not even think about this, about bringing the body back and/or maintaining its state of homeostasis. Normal body function is often overlooked and so is the search for what is causing the deficiency in the first place.

Society is entering an era of wellness; I like to think of it as The Wellness Revolution.People are more aware and educated about their lifestyle choices. Studies are available to just about anyone who wants the information. There is a gym, a health food store, and vitamin store in just about every corner advertising that “your health is your true wealth”, you know what…….. they are right.

Unfortunately, we are still under the SICK CARE model of health care, where preventative care is considered to be a biannual or a yearly check up. News flash, that’s called early detection not PREVENTATIVE CARE.

In order to change the health problems we face today, we must change our way of life. Start with a proper WELL BALANCED nutritional plan. Diets do not work, you may lose the weight while you are on it but studies say that 85% of people gain the weight back when they come off the diet within one or two years. Follow up with a good EXERCISE ROUTINE with a healthy amount and combination of cardio and resistive training, a POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE and enough REST/SLEEP. Last but not least we have to be 100% sure that our nervous system is working at its optimal level, and the reason for that is because your nervous system is the master system of your body and it controls and coordinates the functions of all the other body systems.
Stay active, stay healthy, and live a wellness lifestyle.

Always in Health,
Dr. Bruno Contro, DC