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Half of All Alzheimer’s Patients Don’t Really Have the Disease

June 11, 2013 By WCA Staff

by Terry A. Rondberg, DC

English: PET scan of a human brain with Alzhei...

PET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer’s disease (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Research shows that Alzheimer’s disease and other dementing illnesses are often misdiagnosed in the elderly, leading to incorrect treatment and medications.That is the conclusion of a study presented as part of a plenary session at the American Academy of Neurology’s Annual Meeting in April.

“Diagnosing specific dementias in people who are very old is complex, but with the large increase in dementia cases expected within the next 10 years in the United States, it will be increasingly important to correctly recognize, diagnose, prevent and treat age-related cognitive decline,” said study author Lon White, MD, MPH, with the Kuakini Medical System in Honolulu.

For the study, researchers autopsied the brains of 426 Japanese-American men who were residents of Hawaii, and who died at an average age of 87 years. Of those, 211 had been diagnosed with a dementia when they were alive, most commonly attributed to Alzheimer’s disease.

The study found that about half of those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease did not have sufficient numbers of the brain lesions characterizing that condition to support the diagnosis. Most of those in whom the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease was not confirmed had one or a combination of other brain lesions sufficient to explain the dementia. These included microinfarcts, Lewy bodies, hippocampal sclerosis or generalized brain atrophy. In most of these cases, however, the patient had been treated – incorrectly – for Alzheimer’s, based on the misdiagnosis.

Misdiagnoses increased with older age. They also reflected non-specific manifestations of dementia, a very high prevalence of mixed brain lesions, and the ambiguity of most neuroimaging measures.

“Larger studies are needed to confirm these findings and provide insight as to how we may more accurately diagnose and prevent Alzheimer’s disease and other principal dementing disease processes in the elderly,” said Dr. White.

SOURCE: American Academy of Neurology, press release, Feb. 23, 2011

(Dr. Terry A. Rondberg is founder and President of the World Chiropractic Alliance and publisher emeritus of The Chiropractic Journal. Developer of Bioenergy Therapy, he brings cutting edge wellness care to clients at his Temecula Wellness Center in California.)

Amphetamines Linked to Risk of Parkinson’s

June 10, 2013 By WCA Staff

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People who have used amphetamines such as Benzedrine and Dexedrine appear to be at an increased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to a study released presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 63rd Annual Meeting.

Benzedrine and Dexedrine are amphetamines often prescribed to increase wakefulness and focus for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy – a disorder that can cause excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden attacks of sleep. They are also used to treat traumatic brain injuries.

The study involved 66,348 people in northern California who had participated in the Multiphasic Health Checkup Cohort Exam between 1964 and 1973 and were evaluated again in 1995. The average age of the participants at the start of the study was 36 years-old. Of the participants, 1,154 people had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease by the end of the study.

Exposure to amphetamines was determined by two questions: one on the use of drugs for weight loss and a second question on whether people often used Benzedrine or Dexedrine. Amphetamines were among the drugs commonly used for weight loss when this information was collected.

According to the study, people who reported using Benzedrine or Dexedrine were nearly 60% more likely to develop Parkinson’s than those who didn’t take the drugs. The study revealed no increased risk for individuals who used drugs for weight loss.

“If further studies confirm these findings, the potential risk of developing Parkinson’s disease from these types of amphetamines would need to be considered by doctors before prescribing these drugs as well as be incorporated into amphetamine abuse programs, including illicit use,” said study author Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, PhD, with the Division of Research at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Oakland, Calif.

Dr. Van Den Eeden explained that amphetamines affect the release and uptake of dopamine, the key neurotransmitter involved in Parkinson’s disease. He said that more research needs to be completed to confirm the association and learn more about possible mechanisms.

According to a Newsweek article by Jack Shafer, “Pharmaceutical companies produced 3.5 billion legal tablets of various amphetamines in 1958, enough to supply every American with 20 standard doses (5 to 15 milligrams) a year. Those pills were potentially just as addictive and potentially just as deadly as the meth found on the street today. Less than a decade later, annual production of pharmaceutical amphetamines had climbed to 8 billion tablets, and by 1971 it topped 12 billion. These quantities far exceeded the amount needed for the then-approved medical uses of amphetamines in treatment of narcolepsy, obesity, depression, fatigue, anxiety, and hyperkinetic children.”

Terry A. Rondberg, DC, President of the World Chiropractic Alliance and developer of Bioenergy Therapy, says that such adverse side effects with today’s drugs is not only far too common, but increasing in frequency. “We have to learn that we can’t rely on drugs and surgery to prevent and resolve health issues,” he explained. “These methods usually don’t help and end up causing more problems. We need to understand that our bodies have an innate ability to get and keep us well. Sometimes, we need to give it help by correcting interference or relieving physical and emotional stress, which strengthens our natural abilities and our immune system.”

Bioenergy Therapy, which Rondberg developed after more than 40 years clinical practice in manual therapy, is specifically aimed at releasing the tension in the upper cervical spine area known as the sub-occipital triangle, which is a hub for mechano-receptors, muscle spindle cells and GTOs (Golgi tendon organs).

An advanced innovation in massage therapy, Bioenergy Therapy starts with application of vibrations applied to the sub-occipital, upper trapezius, and posterior cervical muscles. The vibratory action on these muscles causes these muscles to relax, increasing their blood supply and supply of nutrients, while releasing pain-producing metabolic waste products.

Ultimately, the brain changes the levels of pain, postural distortion, stress levels, and stiffness. By working directly on the muscles in the sub-occipital triangle region, rather than on bones in various areas of the body or spine, Bioenergy Therapy directly affects the brain, where all pain, stiffness and dysfunction, originate.

SOURCES: “Using Amphetamines May Increase Risk of Parkinson’s Disease,” press release,

American Academy of Neurology, Feb. 20, 2011

“Bioenergy Therapy,” Temecula Wellness Center.

Why Are We So Resistant to New Ideas?

June 9, 2013 By WCA Staff

Terry A. Rondberg, DC, has been in the health field for more than four decades and has witnessed radical changes in field, changes that are too often met with resistance.

“I’m always amazed that humans can be so incredibly innovative that we invent and discover new things every day, while at the same time are so adamantly resistant to new ideas and change,” he says.

This is especially evident in nearly any type of scientific discovery, he explains, from Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation (1686) to Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift in the 1900s, and, in more recent times, Linus Pauling’s advocacy of vitamin C to Prof. Jim Oschman’s work on energy medicine.

“Granted, a certain measure of skepticism can be healthy,” he admits. “We can’t latch onto every new idea that pops out of someone’s head or makes headlines in the National Enquirer. But, we can’t shut our minds so tightly we refuse to even consider the possibility that maybe – just maybe – we don’t know everything or that our long-held beliefs are wrong.”

The risk, he says, is that when it comes to scientific exploration – and particularly to health and wellness issues – we risk imprisoning ourselves in outmoded and potentially harmful mindsets and denying ourselves and society the benefits of true progress.

What’s even more unsettling for Dr. Rondberg is that so many medical professionals fall into that “flat earth” category. Unless research promises a “cure” by drugs or surgery, it isn’t worthy of scientific consideration.

He adds that much of the resistance is rooted in economics. He isn’t alone in that conclusion. Thirty years ago, Dr. Robert Forman of the University of Toledo noted: “Treatment modalities that are not interesting theoretically or that do not offer promise of prestige for the physician-researcher or profits to corporations are not likely to be extensively promoted in the medical world… One wonders how many potentially valuable medical discoveries are being overlooked because they are too simple and not profitable enough.” (Medical Hypotheses, Volume 7, Number 8, 1981, pp. 1009-1017).

One of the most recent and controversial areas is energy medicine – the recognition that humans are powerful transmitters of bioenergy that can affect the body down to the cellular level. Although there is mounting research evidence to prove that theory, too many scientists refuse to accept the new paradigms and cling to the old mechanistic model of the body.

Innovative cell biologist Bruce Lipton – whose research has shown the incredible healing power contained in our cells – explained, “We are holding ‘truths” about science that are actually untruth, they are actually ‘assumptions’ and false assumptions at that. Until we correct them, we are misunderstanding our relationship to the planet, to nature and the environment.”

For Dr. Rondberg, the solution is simple: bring the healing methods to the public regardless of the attitudes of the medical and scientific establishment. “Although real life experience by patients is often dismissed as ‘anecdotal evidence,’ no one can ignore a hundred thousand reports of a new therapy helping people get or stay well,” he stated. “That’s what we’re seeing in energy medicine and related fields.”

One of the modalities used in Dr. Rondberg’s Temecula Wellness Center is a Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) generator.

According to William Pawluk, MD, MSc, Board Certified Family Physician and Holistic Health Practitioner; Former Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and University of Maryland, “PEMFs address impaired chemistry and thus the function of cells – which in turn, improves health. PEMFs deliver beneficial, health-enhancing EMFs and frequencies to the cells. Low frequency PEMFs of even the weakest strengths pass right through the body, penetrating every cell, tissue, organ and even bone without being absorbed or altered! As they pass through, they stimulate most of the electrical and chemical processes in the tissues. Therapeutic PEMFs are specifically designed to positively support cellular energy, resulting in better cellular health and function.”

Like so many health innovations, however, the use of PEMF met with resistance from the old-school medical establishment. “PEMF users report remarkable results,” Dr. Rondberg says. “As word gets out, more people try it and get similar results. It won’t take long for news to travel and for PEMF to be the subject of so much interest that researchers will be forced to look into it, as well as other bioenergy-centered wellness therapy.”

Sources:

PEMF Temecula Wellness Center.

Magnetic Field

Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields: How They Heal, by William Pawluk, MD, The Doctor Oz Show

Exploring ‘Brain-World Interface’

June 8, 2013 By WCA Staff

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Not many years ago, a Japanese company developed a wheelchair that could be controlled by the user’s brain waves. The announcement triggered a wave of “brain-machine interface” (BMI) devices that clearly demonstrated the energy output of the brain was sufficient to have a direct and visible effect on our material world.

Today, engineers and scientists have taken that technology a step further and are developing wireless neural interfaces – “wifi” for the brain. They have even had success with a “thought-to-speech” device where a person can transmit thoughts and have them translated into synthesized speech.

Users control the machines by concentrating their thoughts on the action they want to take. They think about MOVING FORWARD, or they focus on the words they want to convey. In other words, they hold in their minds their intention, and their bioenergetic field translates that intention into action.

“Yet, despite all the research and evidence proving or bodies are powerful energy systems, traditional science has been hesitant to move to the next step and acknowledge that, if we can control a machine with our thoughts, we can control the our bodies – down to the cellular level — as well,” says Terry A. Rondberg, DC, developer of the Bioenergy Therapy.

Dr. Rondberg explains that most scientists and medical researchers are reluctant to talk about the body’s energetic fields because they’ve been ridiculing the notion for so long. Concepts of chi, chakras, and prana have been around for millennia but they have been dismissed as unscientific. They had no place in the scientist’s worldview and definitely not in the realm of medical treatment. Old wives tales. Quackery. Crackpot pseudo-science. Superstitions.

“No wonder they can’t admit there’s any validity to the idea of the body’s subtle energy fields. Or, when their own research forces them to admit the power of the mind, they feel it necessary to disguise the concept with terms like psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, and cognitive and affective neuroscience,” he added.

Some researchers are delving into these forbidden areas, though. A Harvard research study conducted by psychologist David McClelland measured the antibody Salivary Immunoglobin-A in subjects before having them watch a film showing Mother Teresa tending to orphans. Watching the film not only touched the subjects emotionally but it also elevated the SIG-A levels in their body, strengthening their immune response.

“This shouldn’t be surprising,” says Dr. Rondberg. “After all, using the BMI, the wheelchair responded to brain waves in as little as 125 milliseconds. Using your built-in brain-world interface, your body and surroundings are capable of responding just as rapidly”

Dr. Rondberg is founder and President of the World Chiropractic Alliance and publisher emeritus of The Chiropractic Journal. He currently offers his Bioenergy Therapy as part of a full wellness care program to clients at his Temecula Wellness Center in California.

Learn How To Protect Yourself And Your Loved Ones From Cancer

May 27, 2013 By WCA Staff

by Dr. Terry A. Rondberg

According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 1.7 million patients will be diagnosed with cancer in 2013, and about 580,350 Americans – almost 1,600 people per day – are expected to die of it.

Yet, recent research has indicated nearly ALL cancer is preventable. A study published in the journal Pharmaceutical Research in 2008 stated: “Only 5–10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects, whereas the remaining 90–95% have their roots in the environment and lifestyle.”;

One main reason is ignorance. We know that smoking is a major cause of lung cancer, but most people – including many medical doctors – don’t realize that bad diet, stress, lack of exercise, and infections have all been linked to cancer. They also don’t know that almost every living body already HAS cancer cells in it but these cells are routinely found and destroyed by a healthy immune system. Cancer researcher Paul Knoepfler explained that “…our immune systems are far better at finding and destroying cancer than we ever imagined.”;

Whatever weakens the immune system raises the risk of cancer and anything that strengthens it helps prevent the disease. That’s why wellness techniques – including; nutrition; exercise; meditation; and other drug-free, non-invasive approaches to well-being – are making headlines when it comes to cancer prevention. Instead of weakening the immune system as medical treatment and prescription drugs often do, these methods work with the body’s natural healing abilities to strengthen it.

Learn to protect yourself and loved ones from heart disease

May 26, 2013 By WCA Staff

by Dr. Terry A. Rondberg

Heart disease is the #1 disease killer in the US, taking the lives of about 600,000 people each year – that’s one of every four deaths.

Yet, according to conservative estimates by the American Heart Association, 80% of heart disease and stroke can be prevented. Rather than treat the disease after the fact, we can protect ourselves and our loved ones from heart problems BEFORE they begin.

To do that, we need to live a healthy lifestyle that incorporates scientifically validated wellness techniques including nutrition, exercise, meditation, and other drug-free, non-invasive approaches to well-being. “There is much more to the prevention and treatment of heart disease than pills and procedures,” explained Stephen Devries, MD, coeditor of the medical journal, Integrative Cardiology.

The first step to take is eliminating any obviously dangerous areas, like obesity, excess alcohol consumption, smoking, or failing to get sufficient physical exercise into your daily routine.

After that, you need to look at your diet and nutrition. Working with wellness professionals who can provide guidance into real life eating choices and special approaches like juicing, detoxing, alkaline balance, or whole foods is essential for those wanting to maximize their wellness levels.

The most important factor in heart disease and heart attacks is stress. Stress causes a cascade of internal reactions including muscle tension, increased heart rate and blood pressure, and elevated levels of stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol. Occasional short-term periods of stress are normal and our bodies have the amazing power to manage the effects without damage. But, long-term or too frequent activation of the stress-response system can, in the words of the Mayo Clinic, “disrupt almost all your body’s processes.”

Is Genetics Really Your Destiny?

May 24, 2013 By WCA Staff

By Dr Terry A Rondberg

Gregor Johann Mendel published a book on genetics in 1866, launching the scientific community’s near obsession with mapping the human genome in order to predict how we’ll look, what diseases we’ll get, and even when we’ll die.

After little more than a century had passed, society came to believe that the course of life was primarily determined by genes. Weight, baldness, illnesses, and even personality were blamed on genetic makeup. “It’s in my genes,” became the mantra of generations of people who felt they had little control over their lives, especially their health.

Yet, more recently, research has been surfacing that calls into question the whole “genetics as destiny” paradigm. Medical experts are admitting that almost all chronic diseases are preventable – despite genetics.

A study published in the journal Pharmaceutical Research in 2008 stated: “Only 5–10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects, whereas the remaining 90–95% have their roots in the environment and lifestyle.”

Same thing with heart disease and stroke. According to conservative estimates by the American Heart Association, 80% of heart disease and stroke can be prevented. The myth that we have heart problems because they “run in the family” is being disproven every day.

Even “common” problems like obesity are far more likely to be related to life style choices than genetics. A 2008 study of more than 17,000 people who carried an obesity-promoting gene – a common variant of FTO (“fat mass and obesity-associated” gene) – showed clearly that physical activity offsets the effects of the gene. After looking at this and numerous other studies, Harvard University noted: “The contribution of genes to obesity risk is small, while the contribution of our toxic food and activity environment is huge… That’s why obesity prevention efforts must focus on changing our environment to make healthy choices easier choices, for all.”

Most exciting is the work being done in a new field of study called epigenetics, which focuses on how chemical reactions can actually switch parts of the genome off and on at strategic times and locations. Most amazingly, those chemical reactions can be triggered by actions within our control – including diet, thoughts, life style changes, and wellness care.

To put it simply, these discoveries can revolutionize the world. As John Cloud explained in an excellent article on epigenetics for Time Magazine. He wrote: “For decades, we have stumbled around massive Darwinian roadblocks. DNA, we thought, was an ironclad code that we and our children and their children had to live by. Now we can imagine a world in which we can tinker with DNA, bend it to our will. It will take geneticists and ethicists many years to work out all the implications, but be assured the age of epigenetics has arrived.”

The fact is, our genes establish many of our “default settings,” the same way a computer program’s default settings determine the program options. What science is learning, however, is that we can, to a large degree, change those settings.

Despite all this research and evidence, segments of the medical industry cling to old notions about genetics and use the old myths to convince patients they’re destined to contract certain illnesses because their genes contain certain markers, or gene mutations.

Recent publicity surrounding actress Angelina Jolie has ignited an intense debate about genetics as destiny. When Jolie learned that she had a “BRCA gene mutation,” which would put her at an 87% risk of breast cancer, she chose to undergo a double mastectomy to eliminate the possibility of developing the disease. As a highly intelligent and informed woman, her choice was a personal one to be respected.

However, it sets a troubling example for women who are already constantly bombarded by “pink ribbon” messages about breast cancer. There are grave doubts as to the wisdom of undergoing extreme surgery because the actuarial tables indicate bad odds, especially since even the Mayo Clinic says having the BRCA gene mutation “doesn’t mean that you’ll ultimately develop cancer.” It also warns that preventive surgery such as Jolie chose, “doesn’t eliminate all cancer risk. It’s possible that cancer still might develop in any tissue that couldn’t be removed through surgery.”

Medical doctors aren’t fortune tellers and their tests can neither predict with exact accuracy how our bodies will react, nor how we can make positive changes in our lives so we “beat the odds” without invasive drugs or surgery.

The only real winners in the genetics game are those who make huge profits from the tests and procedures. The company that tested Jolie, for instance – Myriad Genetics – makes half a billion dollars a year in genetic testing. About 85% of that amount comes from genetic testing for breast cancer at about $4,000 per test.

Add to that the cost of the “preventive” surgery, hospitalization, reconstructive surgery, drugs, and follow up care and the total can reach well over $50,000.

The profit motive is obviously a strong one when it comes to recommending such approaches to “health care.” Few companies (including those in the medical industry) have any economic interest in promoting healthy lifestyle, good nutrition, and wellness care that can actually modify genetic behavior and strengthen our natural immune system.

To offset the pressures of these profit-driven companies, it’s important for all of us to make the extra effort to educate ourselves about the innate ability of our bodies to heal themselves. That means making the necessary changes in our diet, our lifestyle, our environment, and our attitudes that will allow our bodies to do what they were designed to do – maintain our health and well-being. We have to take steps to avoid the stress that comes with constantly being surrounded by increasingly fear-provoking messages about disease that saturates our media.

Most importantly, we need to recognize the powerful way the mind interacts and controls the functioning of the body. Our very thoughts and emotions produce neurochemical and molecular changes in cells known as neurons. These changes can alter the structure of the brain, realign electronic synapses, and elevate organic reactions. We simply have to train our minds to concentrate on positive outcomes rather than negative possibilities.

Cell biologist and best-selling science author Bruce Lipton summed it up nicely in an interview for Super Consciousness magazine: “The new knowledge of how perception controls biology reveals that we are active participants in controlling the character of our health and behavior. Our ability to consciously control our perceptions and environment has a profound influence on our lives, versus the old belief system where we are victims of forces outside our control…When we live in the here and now, present all the time, and actively exercise our consciousness to run the show, we create the life we want. It becomes heaven on earth.”

Heaven on earth. It’s within our grasp if we want it enough.

The World Chiropractic Alliance affiliate Mission Life Family Orphanage was founded on March 3, 2010

May 15, 2013 By WCA Staff

Over 300,000 people lost their lives. There are 1,500,000 homeless living in the tent cities with out food and water. Thousands of children have lost their parents due to the January 12, 2010 Earth Quake. Many people have come to live in our Haitian Mission-Chiropractic Clinic. We have decided to open the first Chiropractic Orphanage.

Here is a description of our orphanage.

Children who have been abandoned or orphaned come to our Mission Life Home where they are integrated into a loving family environment. They are nurtured and supported by Alex. Alex is the home’s dad Presently there are 20 other children in the Mission Life home who become their brothers and sisters. Alex’s’s own brothers and sisters live in the home along with their two cousins. Strong bonds develop within the Mission Life family, and even after the children are grown and leave Mission Life, these family relationships endure.

While growing up, the children have the benefit of a stable, loving family environment that includes the necessities of life such as clothing, meals, chiropractic health care and a high-quality education. Children remain in the Mission Life home within until they are prepared to create lives for themselves as independent adults.

The Mission Life home does not operate independently of their environment. The Mission Life Home is a role model for the community in terms of quality care-giving, education, and chiropractic health care and aims to be fully integrated into the larger community – not isolated from it.

The Mission of the World Chiropractic Alliance and Mission Life Home is as follows:

To build families for children in need
To help children shape their own futures
To share in the development of communities
To embrace vitalistic philosophy

We build families for children in need:
We work for children who are orphaned, abandoned or whose families are unable to care for them. We give these children the opportunity to build lasting relationships within the Mission Life family.

Our family approach in the World Chiropractic Alliance and Mission Life Home is based on four principles:
1) Each child needs a father and mother,
2) Each child grows up most naturally with brothers and sisters,
3) Each child grows up in their own house, and
4) Each child grows up within a supportive home environment.
5) Each child has a strong vitalistic education taught by chiropractors.

We help children shape their own futures
We enable children to live according to their own culture and religion, and to be active members of the community. We also want them to know how to speak other languages so that they can embrace other cultures.

We help children to recognize and express their individual abilities, interests and talents.

We ensure that children receive the education and skills training they need to be successful and contributing members of society.

We share in the development of communities
We share in community life and respond to the social development needs of society’s most vulnerable children and young people.

We establish facilities and programs that aim to strengthen families and prevent the abandonment of children.

We join hands with community members to provide education and chiropractic health care, and teach vitalistic principles.
Mission Life International is an independent social development organization with 501(c)3 tax exempt status and is endorsed and affiliated with the World Chiropractic Alliance. All funds donated to Mission Life International are tax deductible for US citizens. We offer children a place to call home and space to heal. By keeping brothers and sisters together, with a full time professional foster parent in an individual home, we rebuild a loving family life.

Mission Life homes are a positive environment designed to help children reach their full potential. But the real strength of the home lies in the collective power of foster parents, staff, and the surrounding community to help children find new hope and trust. With a stable home, caring siblings, and a loving foster parent, the children can have happy childhoods and grow into caring, responsible, self-supporting adults.

Our calling is to provide a safe, healthy, clean and loving environment for orphaned children until they are adopted by sincere and dedicated parents, our ultimate goal being to arrange for their adoption as quickly as possible. It is our determination that 100% of all donations shall go into construction and related costs of building and supporting this new orphanage. Volunteer labor often has been offered and shall be utilized to the fullest extent possible. We welcome contributions from all sources, large or small. We consider all donations as “sacred” money, of which we are but stewards.

United Nations DPI NGO Working Together – Making a Difference

May 1, 2013 By WCA Staff

United Nations DPI NGO Working Together – Making a Difference
Department of Public Information Non Governmental Organizations

Dear Chiropractic Colleagues,

Dr. Morgan and I just returned from Ouanaminthe, Haiti, the site of Mission Life International’s orphanage. This orphanage is 100% supported by chiropractors and their families and friends. The orphanage currently houses 20 children as well as support staff. We also provide schooling for 50 other children from the area. The school is across the street on a piece of property donated to us. It is a covered outdoor structure with benches, desks, and black boards.

On Thursday we visited the United Nations military base, located approximately 15 minutes from our orphanage. There are 360 troops in the barracks, with trucks and a lot of rifles. The base is operated and manned with troops from Uruguay.

As UN representatives, we felt it would be good to meet with the commander of the base and inform them of our chiropractic mission work in Haiti. We were greeted by Col. Raul Passarino, who had received chiropractic care back in Uruguay, and was very happy to meet us. Fortunately, we had brought our Astralite portable adjusting table. We set it up and adjusted the commander and the captain of the base. The power of the adjustments superseded any conversation we previously had. We then agreed to adjust all the troops on our next mission trip this June. He then offered for all our chiropractic missionaries to stay on the base during our few days in Haiti.

We also visited a clothing factory compound, called CODEVI, that employs over 7,000 Haitians, and is located on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. They make the clothing for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Hanes, and many others. Each building had 1,500 people working on sewing machines. It was an impressive operation: clean, organized, and seemingly very productive.

We met with the administrator of the factory, Cristian Capellan. We discussed the possibility of adjusting all 7,000 employees, as well as introducing Straighten Up Haiti to the workers. Once again we pulled out our table and adjusted about 10 executives of the facility. After that, all doors opened. We toured the factory and figured out the logistics of adjusting all the people in one or two days.

Dr. Morgan’s Chiromissions is offering a discounted rate for the upcoming June trip to Haiti. We hope to have 100 doctors and students there to achieve this monumental task.

The factory keeps very accurate production statistics. After the adjustments, we are going to look closely at production changes, and will publish this data in the near future.

How you can help:

Come to Haiti during June 23-26th. Visit www.MissionLifeInternational.com for information and to register.
Sponsor a child in our Orphanage. Visit http://missionlifeinternational.com/custom_content/c_262429_mission_life_internationalorphanage.html to meet our great kids that lost their families to the earthquake.
Make a donation at www.MissionLifeInternational.com
Send the following items to : Mission Chiropractic, 651 West 180th Street, New York, NY 10033 Phone: 646-323-9254
Chalk, Notebooks, Pens, Pencils, Crayons, Soap (especially fungus soap), Toothpaste, Flip-flops

Please get involved on any level. Share this with your family and patients.

Visit our website, www.MissionLifeInternational.com

Visit, Like, and share our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/MissionLifeInternational

On January 12, 2010, the lives of millions of people changed because of the earthquake in Haiti. Children came home from school to find that their whole family had been taken from them. With no one to care for them, many of these children have been roaming the streets and sleeping in dirt.

Dr. Morgan and a few Chiropractors cared enough to go to Haiti and rescue a small group of these children.
These children were moved to Ounaminthe, Haiti, where over the last three years, through the generosity of chiropractors, patients, and family, Dr. Morgan has taken these children from the dirt to a safe, nurturing, happy environment. These children now have a chance to become responsible, educated teenagers and adults.

We need your help to continue caring for these children and to help more children.
No contribution is too small.

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