Do You Want To Improve Your Performance?

            Everyone seems to be attempting to improve their performance these days.  The economy has corporations and industry trying to get the most out of their employees.  Athletes are doing all kinds of things to improve their athletic performance.  Viagra and similar competitive medications are publicly touting enhanced performance in an area that a few years ago was a personal and private matter.  Perhaps it is part of the American psyche that we all want to do better at work, at play, and at everything else.  We are going to great lengths to improve our performance.  Self-help programs, food supplements, drugs, seminars and meditation are just a few of the methods that people are using to attempt to improve their performance in various aspects of life.

            One of the easiest and most effective ways of improving performance, generally and in specific areas, is to remove or reduce the interference to maximum performance.  Unfortunately, our society is geared toward adding something rather than removing something.  Instead of removing the mental and emotional stresses that interfere with our ability to be effective in our job performance, we take mood-altering drugs as if that will make our internal problems go away.

            Instead of removing the unhealthy things from our diet, we add supplements assuming that will compensate for a poor diet.  Instead of addressing the cause of our lack of energy (often getting enough rest), we take “pep pills” as if they were a substitute for getting the proper rest.

            The human body was designed with all that is needed to reach peak performance.  Adding things to our body, especially in the form of unnatural chemicals, may stimulate increased performance on a temporary basis but it cannot be sustained and it has to result in harmful side-effects.  The best we can do is to live naturally and remove interferences.  That may not make us the best that there is but it will make us the best we can be and that should be sufficient.

            On the subject of removing interferences to performance, we cannot overlook nerve interference.  It is probably the greatest interference, at least the greatest that can be easily removed.  When a vertebra subluxates (misaligns) due to various activities of daily life, it interferes with the function of the nerve system.  The nerve system is the primary tool by which the innate intelligence of the body controls and coordinates all function.  Every function of your body will be reduced in its ability to perform if there is a vertebral subluxation in your spine.  How great that reduction in function will be depends on a number of factors and is different for every person.  But without a doubt, you will not be the best you can be.  Perhaps the reduction will be imperceptible, perhaps it will be noticeable only to you.  Or perhaps it will only be noticeable to others and affect your work and your life.  Regardless of who notices or who does not, you should have your spine checked regularly for subluxation so that there is no reduction in your performance due to nerve interference. 

The human body was designed with all that is needed to reach peak performance.

Times Are Changing

Dwight Lundell MD of Mesa AZ, in his expose´ entitled "World Renown Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease," provides a lucid explanation of the widespread poor health in our culture, and a remarkably simple and accessible set of solutions.

A former hospital Chief of Staff with over 2500 heart surgeries to his credit, Dr. Lundell said, "We opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from... elevated blood cholesterol. The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake... Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could... result in malpractice. These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.

The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences... Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.

The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine... The biggest culprits of chronic inflammation... are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower... in... processed foods.

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes... red and nearly bleeding. If you kept this up several times a day... you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process... foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.

There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation-causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them."

The time is coming when physicians of all kinds will awaken to things natural, as we have professed for over a century. Have faith, and keep telling people the truth -- it's working.

This is a post from Dennis Perman's weekly newsletter.