Release the Grip of Traditional Medicine

I want to start this by making it clear that I am not trying to demonize traditional medicine. Clearly, there is a place for medications, surgeries, and general medical medicine practice.

The principle idea for this blog is to help you understand that there are other options in regards to taking care of your health.

Millions upon millions of dollars are spent every single day by big Pharma to make sure that you are constantly bombarded with advertisements stating that they have the next best medication for whatever seems to ail you. It is amazing how happy every one of those actors are on the big screen, simply because they started taking this miracle drug to block or hide all of their symptoms.

As far as business marketing goes, I would say big Pharma are geniuses. They control the health care market, and they have created a health care system that seems to only have ONE method of treatment, pharmaceuticals. We have no connection to the adverse affects of medications and the traditional medical system.

As I scan through the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, some of the numbers are pretty alarming.

Did you know:

• The average person ages 65 to 69 take almost 14 prescriptions
• Those over 80 take nearly 18 prescriptions
• 15-25% of medications used by seniors have been considered unnecessary or even inappropriate
• Medical related problems or accidents cost the US $177.4 Billion, yes Billion, a year
• Adverse drug reactions is among the top 5 greatest threats to the health of seniors
• Each year, 32,000 seniors suffer hip fractures from medication-related problems
• "Any symptom in an elderly patient should be considered a drug side effect until proven otherwise." -- J. Gurwitz et al. Brown University

There are many more interesting stats to be noted, but you can go to the site above and check it out for yourself.

As I mentioned earlier, the traditional medical system is necessary, but I encourage you to try and understand that it is not necessarily the best choice for your initial method of care. Chronic conditions are addressed with medications as the initial plan of care, and it should not be this way. Low back pain is quickly addressed with muscle relaxers and opiate pain medications, this should not be the case.

Diet and lifestyle based conditions like high blood pressure, pre-diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and obesity are addressed with synthetic medications to cover up the symptoms, instead of the doctor taking the time to address the root cause of these condition to prevent them.

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Try Alternative Medicine First

This blog is to encourage each of you to further explore into the alternative medicine avenue.

The true beauty of alternative/holistic care, is that is will actually follow the Hippocratic Oath, "If at least, I will do no harm".

Holistic medicine such as

• Massage Therapy
• Chiropractic Therapy
• Nutritional Supplementation
• Herbal Supplementation
• Reiki
• Yoga

Will not only work to restore your health, it will do it without causing any harm to your body.

Dr. Mercola, a renowned holistic healthcare practitioner  wrote an article called
Chiropractors and Exercise Are Better than Drugs Says New Study

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I encourage you to read this to help understand the difference between allowing the traditional medical system be your initial treatment option, or holistic healthcare.

The truth is, whether you are a senior or not, you know someone that is. You will be some day, and your health today affects you then. If you can start to take control of your health without dependence on a medication regimen, your health will benefit in the long haul. Hopefully you can minimize the prescription levels, and hopefully, if we can start to see the trend in alternative medicine, we can reduce the 25% of unnecessary medications prescribed to the senior citizens.

Regardless of the symptom that you start to have. If you have been diagnoses with a chronic condition, find a holistic provider and just get a second opinion with their treatment options. If they can keep you off of a single medication, your health will benefit.

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3 Years and Some Change

The birth of New-Start Health Center came in late March 2012. Upon graduating for Palmer College of Chiropractic, Florida in December 2011, I set out to create a health center that bases its principles around changing what you think and know about the medical system. With a strong grasp on Evidence-Based Chiropractic Care and an evolving knowledge on nutritional therapy, tying the two holistic medicine approaches together would be the premise of New-Start Health Center.

The first year was definitely the most difficult. Opening a business that is designed to go against the grain is never easy. Fresh out of college, I definitely felt on my own. There are many chiropractic management companies that are designed to help young businesses get off the ground, but I wanted to pioneer something unique. The primary disconnect for myself and chiropractic management companies is the overall feeling of chiropractic in our society. We have all heard the horror stories of going to a chiropractor, “once you go you have to go forever” or “they spend 2 minutes with you and just crack your back”. Trying to change the mind of the majority on how New-Start is a different style of chiropractic. Evidence-Based Chiropractic does not X-ray every patient. We treat pain syndromes and we release them from care. I spend about 12-15 minutes with every patient, minimum. This is a dramatic change to the stereotypical chiropractic visit.

Treating low back pain, headaches, knee pain, etc, has is rewards, but the current epidemic in the US with obesity and diabetes is something I have become drawn to. As I stated, an evolving knowledge on nutritional therapy, I have spent countless hours in a biochemistry book, in seminars, and scouring the internet for research studies to figure out exactly what is going wrong. The common medical practices for diabetes and obesity have fallen short. We are getting sicker, fatter, and unhealthier at a faster rate than ever previously recorded. Unfortunately, healthcare costs are also at an all-time high and climbing quickly. In the anecdotal world, the treatment of conditions starts with covering up the symptoms, and with low back pain, or migraines, this is not detrimental. When you start to use this approach toward an inflammatory condition like Diabetes or Obesity, more problems arise.

After years of research it seems, 5 or 6 book starters, I am proud to be writing a book called, How Health Comes Apart. The idea behind this book is the primary focus of the nutritional therapy side of New-Start Health Center. I am writing my research to change America’s way of thinking about our obesity epidemic.

In three years, New-Start Health Center has been all about change. Change how chiropractic is viewed and utilized. Change how we diagnose and treat obesity and diabetes, and change how medical systems define success. The first three years in the Columbus area have been encouraging, insightful, and rewarding.  I am proud to be a part of the maturity of New-Start Health Center, and with many more years to come, to continue to change for the better.

~Dr. Trent Mozingo

If you are tired of seeking pain relief with no results, call (812) 799-0668 TODAY and schedule a FREE CONSULTATION, and let's get you back to the PAIN-FREE Life you are missing.

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What is the best diet to lose weight?

As you can see, this is a similar question as last weeks about losing weight. Let’s face it, I am in the health care field, the weight loss field, and the nutritional field, this is a common topic of my consultations.

I seem to find myself spending an abundant amount of time researching the latest and greatest FAD diet out that everyone seems to be so crazy over. I constantly hear about the amazing results of this new diet plan that will shed the weight in no time. Lose 10 dress sizes in three weeks. As I stated in the previous blog, if it sounds too good to be true, it is.

To sum up the vast majority of miraculous diet systems out there, I would say you could put them in a few categories:

1.        Calorie counters: These diets are based around the premise of counting every calorie you eat and try to stay at a certain low level to ensure you lose weight. It seems so obvious, a pound of fat is about 3500 calories, so if you eat 3500 less calories than you burn, you will lose 1 pound, right?
2.        Appetite suppressors: These diets are all about decreasing your urge to eat. They use miracle supplements that just keep you from putting food in your mouth. This will decrease your calorie intake and ensure you lose weight. This is the same regard as trying to burn 3500 calories than you eat to lose weight.
3.       Metabolism boosters: I am sure you have seen a plethora of supplements that claim to boost your metabolism. The idea is, if you boost your metabolism, your body will burn more calories at rest and you will lose weight. This diet seems so easy. I can eat whatever I want, and take this metabolism boosting supplement and let it do the work for me.
4. .      Restrictive plans: These are designed to create a diet that restricts a particular food group. The low fat diets, zero carb diets, etc. The theory is that some food groups are responsible for your gaining of weight, and if you stop eating them, you will lose weight. I know you have heard of the anti-carb Atkins Diet. Everyone in the US has been brainwashed about how bad FAT is to eat. So, cut the bad out and you will lose weight, easy peezee.

Do you want to know the biggest problem with all of these diet systems????

They work.

Yes, the problem is they work. You do lose weight. The catch is, its temporary.

Sure, you shock your body by doing some radical change to your diet and you will lose some weight. There is a certain expense to this though. The Yo-Yo effect of dieting and weight.

Fun analogy time!!!

Think about losing weight as if you are trying to improve the gas mileage on your car.

A calorie counting or appetite suppressant diet will only decrease the amount of gas you put in the car. Sure, when your car runs out of gas and you are coasting along without the engine running, you will have a dramatic increase in your gas mileage. BUT> that car comes to a screeching halt and your car is sitting there without any fuel to run itself.  This is what happens when you restrict your calories to an extreme 1200 calorie a day or less diet. Yes, for a brief time, you will lose weight, but every functioning part of your body is being depleted of the fuel it needs to work properly. After time, you will shut down, and just like the car, you will start to fill that tank back up because your car, and your body demand fuel to function.  Now to get your body out of this extreme depleted state, your body is going to overfill its tank and you will add the weight back on, and typically plus some because the body is worried about a crash like that happening again.

Appetite suppressors are very similar to trying to water down the gas you put in your tank to get more out of it. Sure, you are going to use less gas, but your car is not going to run as well on this watered down replacement. End of the day, your car will get less miles per gallon per each gallon you put in because the fuel you are putting in it is just not what the car needs to run at its potential. Appetite suppressant supplementation basically make your body run at a less than optimal level because it doesn’t want to use up all of its stored fuel. And what happens when you run a car on watered down gas for long periods of time? Things start to fail and it eventually shuts down. You do not want this to happen to your body, because to get it started again, it is a lot like the caloric restriction diets, it will add weight back on to protect itself.

Metabolism booster supplements simulate the process of putting some super high octane booster additive into each of your fill ups at the pump to supercharge the energy that your car can burn. This is very effective; your car will run better, faster, and much more efficiently. The problem is this. Are you planning on putting this same additive in your car FOREVER??? Losing weight with a supplement that boosts your metabolism is great, but as soon as you stop taking this premium product, guess what happens? All of the weight you have lost, comes screaming back, plus some.

Restrictive plans are just ridiculous. The human body requires 3 forms of caloric intake to survive; protein, fat, and carbohydrates. Each of these macronutrients play their own vital role in the health and wellness of the body. If you cut one of these out, it would be like telling your car, sorry, your don’t need oil anymore. Sure the car will run a little while, but eventually, it will go bad, very bad.

So, back to answering the question. What is the best diet plan?

These questions that I am setting out to answer are some of the most complex things to answer in my world, but I will do my best.

How do you get better fuel mileage out of your car?

Every car will get better fuel economy out of premium gasoline. Sure we all of the expense of 87

octane gas at the pump, and when we make that discounted purchase, we know that we are hurting our fuel mileage. Unfortunately, the body is not much different. If you try to purchase low grade food due to a budget, you are going to struggle with weight loss because your body just will not run as optimally as it could. More importantly, you have to plan on putting the more expensive, premium gas in your car for its entire life. You can’t just put the good stuff in for a while, feel the amazing effects, and then expect those results to remain after you go back to the 87 octane junk.

So, to wrap up the longest analogy of all time.

If you want to lose weight, stop looking for a diet plan. Stop looking for something to help you lose weight in the next 3 weeks.  You have to start looking at what you need to do to get your body running as smoothly and efficiently as it can. You have to fuel it with the best of fuel, and you have to understand that every time you go to a fast food joint, you are just putting watered down poor octane gas in your body and it will have a very negative effect on your goals.

I will repeat this and hopefully make it clearer.

There is no special diet plan that is going to be released to make you miraculously lose weight. The body needs fuel, good fuel, to make it function at its best. You need to plan on providing this premium food for the rest of your life if you want to keep any weight that you lose off for good. Yo-Yo dieting is detrimental to your overall metabolic function and it is a major struggle with so many of us. Overcoming the idealism that there is something wrong with your genetics and ability is an important step to becoming your biggest benefactor for your health.

I wish I had some happy ending to put here with a miracle diet plan, but I don’t. If I did, I would be the wealthiest man in the world, but after all of the hours of research I have done, I can assure you, the only person that will help you lose weight is you. You have to take charge of your health and plan on making this a lifetime life goal.

~Dr. Trent Mozingo

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Stop Looking for Greener Grass….

 I am sure you have all heard of the term, the grass is always greener on the other side…

I am going to change your perspective of this simple overused concept.

I hope you understand that this is all an analogy. I am not actually talking about turf management.

So many of us look over the fence at our neighbor’s yard and just wonder how did they get such beautiful, plush, green grass. We wonder what their secret is. We want to experience their grass on our feet.  

I think a lot of this falls on the misconception of luck. The one will less green grass always wonders how the one with green grass got so lucky. What did they do to deserve that grass that is so emerald green?

We wake up and peer out the back window to find our yard, and with a disappointed gaze, we look over and see our neighbor, riding a bigger lawnmower than we have, mowing their beautiful green grass. All we want to do is trade lives. Trade houses, get their house and yard, and all will be as happy as they are. We constantly compare our yard to theirs, and wonder how they got such green grass. We have the exact same amount of rainfall. We mow at the exact same times, but yet, it is always greener over there and not where I am standing.

Why is it so easy for our neighbor?

Gut check moment…

The truth is… You will never have your neighbor’s yard. You are put on this earth with a yard. One you are responsible for. Stop wondering why others bare a healthier yard than yours.

Only you are responsible for the color of your grass or the health of your yard. Only you can make it greener. Stop wondering why someone else has the grass you want. Stop trying to bridge over and enjoy their green grass as your own. Stop blaming reason after reason for your lack of the prettiest, healthiest green grass.

Grass isn’t greener on the other side. Your grass is greener if you actually put the required work in.

Here are three steps to getting that greenest grass.

 Plant the seeds.

When I say plant the seeds, I do not mean walk out and throw some grass seed down and hope for the best.

This process is about understanding the goal you have in mind. You have to visualize what you want your yard to grow into. More importantly, you have to get the soil ready to be sewn.  If you set a goal without doing any pre planning, and preparing, then the goal is destined to set on top of the ground like the seed you just threw out to grow. You have to till the soil, prepare for the vision you have, and you have to give your seed a chance to set roots. Without a proper foundation, your grass will never prosper.

Money doesn’t grow on trees. Nothing of value is free. You have to work hard for everything and you have to put groundwork in with only a vision of what could be. Fertilizer is an investment, an idea, or a task that you have to do that you know could bare zero immediate benefit, but you have faith in it.

 Fertilize your yard.

 

So many of us set a goal of green grass but then just put it on the back burner and wait for it to miraculously

come to be. This is a slow and drawn out process. If you really want greener grass you have to go above and beyond the bare minimum to have success.

Yes, the rainfall is the easiest way to give your grass the water it needs to sustain life. We are not after mediocrity. We don’t want grass that grows. We want the greenest grass.

You have to invest in your dream. Nothing of value is free. You have to work hard for everything and you have to put groundwork in with only a vision of what could be. Fertilizer is an investment, an idea, or a task that you have to do that you know could bare zero immediate benefit, but you have faith in it.

Your dream of the greenest grass will not happen overnight. You have to keep the future of what you want in your focus. You have to continue to feed the dream with all that you can, invest all you have, and you have to give it time to grow.

Weed Your Yard.

Every single one of us has experienced a nuisance trying to corrupt the integrity of our responsibilities. These weeds will plague your beautiful green grass forever unless you build the courage to go out and remove them from your existence. It is not easy work. Weeding a yard can be difficult on your body and mind.

Ironically, sometimes the weeds are even green, but you know, they have the wrong intentions when growing amongst your grass. They are not really there to see your grass become the greenest it can be, they are only after the nutrients that your goals allow them to steal. They will reap the benefits of your hard work and fertilizer. They will mask themselves as trying to help, but you have to see past it.

 Understanding what you have growing that will make your yard greener and what will not is crucial. But being able to get rid of the negative impacts is even more important.

If you understand this concept, you should be able to apply it to many walks of life. Relationships, careers, dreams, hobbies, etc. All you have to do is understand that you are responsible for your own fate. You have to put in the groundwork. You have to see your dreams through to the end. You have to make sure you are doing everything you can to give any dream or goal the chance it deserves to prosper.

 ~Dr. Moz

If you are tired of seeking pain relief with no results, call (812) 799-0668 TODAY and schedule a FREE CONSULTATION, and let's get you back to the PAIN-FREE Life you are missing.

Visit www.NewStartHealthCenter.com TODAY!