Pain is a message from your Innate Intelligence. The entire drug industry exists to hang up the phone.

Can painkillers kill?

Over-the-counter pain meds... Advil, Aleve, Tylenol. Passed around like candy, by people who love you. The painkiller side effects: gastrointestinal bleeding, kidney damage, liver damage, heart attack and stroke. How many years have you been living on this stuff? How many doses, added up... if you dare?

The opioids. Fentanyl, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine. Chronic constipation. Extreme immune suppression. Depression. Heart attacks. And hyperalgesia, which means the thing you swallowed to feel less has taught your body to feel more. Hyperalgesia is the whole enterprise turning on itself.

Muscle relaxers. Understand what that spasm actually is. It's your Innate Intelligence standing guard over a subluxated spine. Silence the guard, and you'll move in ways you've got no business moving. The bill comes anyway: blurred vision, seizures, liver damage, heart rhythm abnormalities, central nervous system depression.

Vioxx killed more Americans than we lost in Vietnam. Pulled from the market. Its sister drug is still sitting on the shelf, same class of drug. Better lobbyists, maybe.

Then the steroids. Prednisone, short term and long, is discussed... vision problems, psychosis, osteoporosis, diabetes, immune suppression so deep your defenses stop reporting for work. Shoot steroids into a joint that already hurts and the joint damage goes deeper. Boyd's Physiology, a medical textbook, calls corticosteroid therapy the refuge of the destitute. Poetic, isn't it? It means the doctor's run out of ideas.

The medical direction, outside-in, is discussed. So is the second damage, the quiet one. You feel better, so you wait. Chiropractic care gets postponed. Months. Years. The subluxation sits right where it is, and the clock keeps running.

You can pay me now, or you can pay me later.

Above-down, inside-out. You get adjusted to deal with cause, to express more Life, to pursue Health.

Be well,

Don Harte, D.C.

Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!

For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.

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