Think back – when was the last time you had a headache? Stomach ache? Skin or rash outbreak? Felt depressed or anxious? How about itchy, watery eyes from all the seasonal allergies? Oftentimes it's easy to pinpoint patients with life-threatening or debilitating diseases such as cancer, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's and offer them additional help.
However, it's important to remember those who are just showing signs of suboptimal health. The largest part of my practice is made up of patients who suffer from the symptoms listed above. They come in seeking help for depression, chronic fatigue and allergies. And it's important to advertise that you can help!
The body is made up of essentials and non-essentials. Your heart, lungs and brain – these are all essential to life and the body will send every available nutrient and protective means to these items first. Everything else – skin, fingernails, hair, eyes, etc., you can survive without, so the body will not bother protecting and sending nutrients to these areas if either something else is going on in your body that is more urgent or you are simply taking in too few nutrients to allow the body to function optimally.
What this means is that the seemingly bothersome symptoms most of the population just "deals with" could actually be indicators of a greater problem. What's worse is that medical doctors are readily available to prescribe medication for each of these "nuisance" symptoms.
A 2005 survey found that nearly 60 percent of U.S. adults took a medication in the previous week for symptoms ranging from pain to high cholesterol to cancer.1 Anti-depressants are particularly popular with women. In 1994, 2.3 percent of women in the U.S. were on an antidepressant; by 2008 that number had jumped to nearly 13 percent. Sadly, for women between the ages of 45-64, almost one in four were on antidepressants as of 2008.2
What these individuals might not realize is that there may be a more natural option. Prescriptions are not necessarily the only answer. One of my patients came to the office for a consultation with a plethora of "nuisance" symptoms. When I entered the room, the patient looked like she was in good health – she acted very pleasant, her hair and make-up had been done and she appeared to be very well-balanced mentally. It was only after she asked for help that I discovered the following: At just 33 years old, she suffered from almost-daily mood swings, depression, hot and cold flashes, excessive hunger and weight gain, acne, low energy, frequent headaches, chronic infections and constipation. She said she felt "somewhat crazy" and "not like herself." At night she woke 3-4 times in a panic with severe night sweats. At the time of the initial visit, she weighed 144 lbs at 5'3" and her blood pressure was 100/70.
You could not tell that this patient suffered from all of the above-mentioned symptoms just by looking at her. How many of your patients appear to be in good health? Next time they enter your office, ask – you may be surprised by how many pre-existing patients could use your help for something other than a chiropractic adjustment.
Before seeking my help, the patient had been to her medical doctor, who diagnosed her with general anxiety disorder (GAD) and prescribed five different medications to control her anxiety, depression, headaches and constipation. After three months of no relief, she was ready for a second opinion. While the medical community will quickly offer drugs to mask each symptom, I chose a more inquisitive approach and ran a series of comprehensive tests to try and find what underlying causes or deficiencies were causing these symptoms. Her quality of life had been seriously altered by these issues and perhaps signalled more serious developing problems.
Her bloodwork showed an interesting trend. Tests of her kidneys, liver, metabolic panel, glucose, vitamin D, lipids, etc., were all just slightly too high or low for optimal health. While very few were outside the clinical reference ranges used by medical doctors, they were outside what I call the "healthy range," which is a stricter guideline for each test used to detect progression toward disease What this means is that she was on the verge of developing some serious medical problems.
2011年11月17日星期四
2011年9月19日星期一
Virginia City and Nevada City, Montana
On May 26, 1863, while the great armies of the Civil War slaughtered each other with calculated fury back East, six gold prospectors camped a dozen miles west of Montana’s Madison River beside a creek in a draw between the Gravelly Range and Tobacco Root Mountains, way out there in the middle of nowhere. Having escaped their own capture by Crow Indian warriors, and now headed for the gold camps at Bannack, one of those miners, Bill Fairweather, scooped a little dirt into Henry Edgar’s pan hoping to find some tobacco “money” in the form of gold. It payed off and what followed was nothing short of mayhem.
Within a year 10,000 - 30,000 people, depending on your source, packed into a string of nine communities along a 14-mile stretch in and around Alder Gulch and exploited one of the richest gold deposits in North America. Many got rich. Most didn’t.
Evolving from crowded tent camps, wickiups and log shacks to resplendent Victorian residences and looming commercial establishments, this lawless, roaring cauldron of money-grubbers and hucksters, ditch-diggers and gold-panners, merchants and madams and evil gun-slinging road agents put the “Wild” in the “Wild, Wild West” and put Virginia City, and Nevada City a mile and a half down the road, on the map and in Montana’s history books.
Drive a dozen miles west of the beautiful, small town of Ennis and step back in time because Virginia City is the best preserved gold mining town from the 1860s in the Rocky Mountains. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and preserved with loving care and abject devotion, the twin cities are astonishingly authentic and a fantastic place to visit.
These are not idle words. A “living” ghost town with 150 year-round residents today, back in the 1860s Virginia City boasted over 1,100 buildings compared to 230 major structures still standing. It had the first newspaper, telegraph and public school in Montana, and was the capitol of the Montana Territory from 1865 until 1875 when placer gold played out and most everyone moved on to more fertile grounds. A third of Virginia City’s population were hard-working Chinese; they didn’t all wash laundry and serve Kung Pao Chicken but labored in the mine fields, re-working old claims and breaking their backs like the rest in order to survive and hopefully thrive.
Sundays in Virginia City were indistinguishable from the rest of the week as boozing, bartering and brawling roared full-throttle. Known far and wide as the “Social City,” the locals were partiers, celebrating seemingly non-stop with balls and galas and square-dances and shindigs and hoedowns and similar foot-stomping gyrations. The women weren’t all sluts and whores and gold-digging leeches, either. Some could read and formed literary circles and took baths, and some thought themselves better than others and embarked on missions to “reform” those beneath them and spruced up their town of 5,000 with the trappings of relative civility.
Located 90 road miles from Yellowstone National Park and situated on the infamous Bozeman Trail, Virginia City became a regional marketplace, a major hub and transit corridor through the 1880s. It continues to feel remote notwithstanding the many buildings and 70,000 tourists and history buffs that trickle through every year.
It was due to this convenient remoteness and tremendous wealth that flowed out of Alder Gulch that its history is drenched in blood. With no state-sanctioned courts or statutes to speak of, the region was lawless, and not in a good way. Between the booze and the guns and all that greed that brings out the worst, and the chaw, and the stink and the stench and the smoke, and the muddy manure, it was a nasty life by most accounts, certainly by 21st- century standards.
They mine humans and their dollar bills today. Virginia and Nevada cities provide all the amenities the visitor should expect. From rustic lodging to upscale bed and breakfasts, cheap grits to fancy dining, you’ll be treated well. But don’t be mistaken; it’s not just a bunch of old buildings on display. There’s plenty to do and see. Gathered between those musty, dark walls are historic artifacts and collectibles galore. The Nevada City Music Hall has the largest collection of music machines, gaviolis and player-pianos in the world, or at least North America. You can jar your teeth and rattle your hemorrhoids on a bumpy ride on the iconic horse-drawn stagecoach, or take in a naughty theater show at the opera house. Or, try your hand panning for gold or digging up rubies. Better yet, hop on the fully restored 1910 Baldwin steam locomotive that rolls back and forth between Virginia City and Nevada City.
And if you’re still bored, why not lick an ice cream cone sitting on a bench near one of those old weathered livery stables and daydream back in time to the noise and the crowds and the guns and horses and the main street muck, and explain to me how Bill Fairweather, who scooped-up that first pile of gold-laden dirt, died a penniless alcoholic at the age of 39 when so many others became so filthy, stinking rich off his discovery. Explain that.
Within a year 10,000 - 30,000 people, depending on your source, packed into a string of nine communities along a 14-mile stretch in and around Alder Gulch and exploited one of the richest gold deposits in North America. Many got rich. Most didn’t.
Evolving from crowded tent camps, wickiups and log shacks to resplendent Victorian residences and looming commercial establishments, this lawless, roaring cauldron of money-grubbers and hucksters, ditch-diggers and gold-panners, merchants and madams and evil gun-slinging road agents put the “Wild” in the “Wild, Wild West” and put Virginia City, and Nevada City a mile and a half down the road, on the map and in Montana’s history books.
Drive a dozen miles west of the beautiful, small town of Ennis and step back in time because Virginia City is the best preserved gold mining town from the 1860s in the Rocky Mountains. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and preserved with loving care and abject devotion, the twin cities are astonishingly authentic and a fantastic place to visit.
These are not idle words. A “living” ghost town with 150 year-round residents today, back in the 1860s Virginia City boasted over 1,100 buildings compared to 230 major structures still standing. It had the first newspaper, telegraph and public school in Montana, and was the capitol of the Montana Territory from 1865 until 1875 when placer gold played out and most everyone moved on to more fertile grounds. A third of Virginia City’s population were hard-working Chinese; they didn’t all wash laundry and serve Kung Pao Chicken but labored in the mine fields, re-working old claims and breaking their backs like the rest in order to survive and hopefully thrive.
Sundays in Virginia City were indistinguishable from the rest of the week as boozing, bartering and brawling roared full-throttle. Known far and wide as the “Social City,” the locals were partiers, celebrating seemingly non-stop with balls and galas and square-dances and shindigs and hoedowns and similar foot-stomping gyrations. The women weren’t all sluts and whores and gold-digging leeches, either. Some could read and formed literary circles and took baths, and some thought themselves better than others and embarked on missions to “reform” those beneath them and spruced up their town of 5,000 with the trappings of relative civility.
Located 90 road miles from Yellowstone National Park and situated on the infamous Bozeman Trail, Virginia City became a regional marketplace, a major hub and transit corridor through the 1880s. It continues to feel remote notwithstanding the many buildings and 70,000 tourists and history buffs that trickle through every year.
It was due to this convenient remoteness and tremendous wealth that flowed out of Alder Gulch that its history is drenched in blood. With no state-sanctioned courts or statutes to speak of, the region was lawless, and not in a good way. Between the booze and the guns and all that greed that brings out the worst, and the chaw, and the stink and the stench and the smoke, and the muddy manure, it was a nasty life by most accounts, certainly by 21st- century standards.
They mine humans and their dollar bills today. Virginia and Nevada cities provide all the amenities the visitor should expect. From rustic lodging to upscale bed and breakfasts, cheap grits to fancy dining, you’ll be treated well. But don’t be mistaken; it’s not just a bunch of old buildings on display. There’s plenty to do and see. Gathered between those musty, dark walls are historic artifacts and collectibles galore. The Nevada City Music Hall has the largest collection of music machines, gaviolis and player-pianos in the world, or at least North America. You can jar your teeth and rattle your hemorrhoids on a bumpy ride on the iconic horse-drawn stagecoach, or take in a naughty theater show at the opera house. Or, try your hand panning for gold or digging up rubies. Better yet, hop on the fully restored 1910 Baldwin steam locomotive that rolls back and forth between Virginia City and Nevada City.
And if you’re still bored, why not lick an ice cream cone sitting on a bench near one of those old weathered livery stables and daydream back in time to the noise and the crowds and the guns and horses and the main street muck, and explain to me how Bill Fairweather, who scooped-up that first pile of gold-laden dirt, died a penniless alcoholic at the age of 39 when so many others became so filthy, stinking rich off his discovery. Explain that.
2011年8月9日星期二
China Sky One Medical Announces Second Quarter 2011 Results
"Our second quarter revenue declined 7.6% year-over-year, primarily reflecting the loss of two distribution relationships in the third quarter of 2010. We continue to aggressively pursue new customers to distribute our broad portfolio of pharmaceutical products, while investing in China Sky One's future, as exemplified by our winning bid on land use rights for land in Harbin's Song Bei District. We intend to build a research and development center, an injection manufacturing facility, a logistics center and an office building on the land during the first phase of development, which we expect to complete by mid-2012," said Mr. Yan-Qing Liu, Chairman and CEO of China One Medical, Inc. "Despite the challenges of the past year, we are optimistic that we can reestablish robust revenue and earnings growth at China Sky One Medical by continuing to invest in R&D, securing new distributor relationships and identifying uses for our strong balance sheet and cash flow."
In the second quarter of 2011, China Sky One's total revenues decreased 7.6% to $37.7 million from $40.8 million in the same quarter last year, largely reflecting the continuing impact of terminated business relationships with a domestic distributor and an overseas sales agent during the third quarter of 2010, which negatively impacted the sales of the Company's Ointments, Patches, Sprays and Diagnostic Kits categories. These two distributors accounted for 0% and 17.4% of the Company's overall revenue in the second quarter of 2011 and second quarter of 2010, respectively.
By product category, lower sales from Ointments, Patches, Sprays and Drops contributed to the Company's overall year-over-year revenue decline, offset somewhat by top-line growth in Wash Fluids, Dignostic Kits, Suppositories and the Others category.
Sales of ointments declined 28.5% year-over-year to $8.3 million in the second quarter of 2011, primarily due to a $2.6 million year-over-year decline in the Company's Hemorrhoids Ointment product.
Sales of patches declined 34.2% year-over-year to $6.4 million in the second quarter of 2011. The decrease in patch product sales was primarily due to a 63.3% decrease in Slim Patch sales, along with sales declines of several other Patch products, primarily due the termination of a key distributor relationship in the third quarter of 2010.
Sales of wash fluids increased 133.5% year-over-year to $4.3 million in the second quarter of 2011, driven by strong sales of Metronidazole and Chlorhexidine wash fluids.
In the second quarter of 2011, China Sky One's total revenues decreased 7.6% to $37.7 million from $40.8 million in the same quarter last year, largely reflecting the continuing impact of terminated business relationships with a domestic distributor and an overseas sales agent during the third quarter of 2010, which negatively impacted the sales of the Company's Ointments, Patches, Sprays and Diagnostic Kits categories. These two distributors accounted for 0% and 17.4% of the Company's overall revenue in the second quarter of 2011 and second quarter of 2010, respectively.
By product category, lower sales from Ointments, Patches, Sprays and Drops contributed to the Company's overall year-over-year revenue decline, offset somewhat by top-line growth in Wash Fluids, Dignostic Kits, Suppositories and the Others category.
Sales of ointments declined 28.5% year-over-year to $8.3 million in the second quarter of 2011, primarily due to a $2.6 million year-over-year decline in the Company's Hemorrhoids Ointment product.
Sales of patches declined 34.2% year-over-year to $6.4 million in the second quarter of 2011. The decrease in patch product sales was primarily due to a 63.3% decrease in Slim Patch sales, along with sales declines of several other Patch products, primarily due the termination of a key distributor relationship in the third quarter of 2010.
Sales of wash fluids increased 133.5% year-over-year to $4.3 million in the second quarter of 2011, driven by strong sales of Metronidazole and Chlorhexidine wash fluids.
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