Headaches Are A Nuisance

Problem? Headache, Solution, Drugs?

There are so many people in the world today that believe headaches are just another inconvenience of life.  Headaches are so prevalent in this country that we spend millions of dollars on over the counter drugs such as Tylenol, Advil and aspirin.  Our overuse of headache drugs make the manufactures very happy as we hate the pain that is caused by headaches and will do anything to get rid of it.  Unfortunately the drug makers tend to keep the side effects of the drugs hush hush so that people will only identify their product with relief, no pain and making our lives more manageable. 

Drug EFFECTS

All drugs have 'side effects'.  This terminology is used by the medical health care profession to not alarm the consumer.  'Side Effects' is a more palatable terminology but I like to call them 'Effects'.  There is no drug that does not have an effect on the human body.  Although drugs are created to have an effect on a disease or according to the FDA 'cure a disease' they are mostly substances that the body has adverse reactions to.  'Effects' can run the gamut from slight mouth dryness to death.  Yes, if you go to some of the web sites of the drug you are taking you will find that many of the adverse reactions are life threatening.  How can that be?

FDA Approves Death And Other Effects

Drug companies do research on their own drugs and supply paperwork to the FDA who decides whether the company may sell the drug in this country.  Upon approval of the research done by the drug company the drug can then be sold without FDA researching the drug for safety.  It's that easy, the FDA takes the companies word for it.  Do you remember Vioxx or Phen Phen which were taken off the market after killing a few people? 

Once approved by the FDA the drug company will push the drugs at hospitals, doctors offices, and yes even to you the possible consumer via television.  All those people in the commercials running around being so happy after taking the drug is very reassuring.  However, listen carefully to the side effects that it may cause.  I don't know about you but I don't want bloody stool, dizziness, low sex drive, vomiting, diarrhea, pain or death.  This list is just a few of no less than 20 'side effects' that most drugs create on the human body.  Do I think that there is a place for drugs?

Drugs Have A Place

Yes, if you are in a life or death situation drugs should be administered.  Many people have been saved by drugs.  However, I don't believe that drugs should be administered as frequently as they are being administered in this day and age.  I believe that we need to consider alternative ways of getting our bodies back to homeostasis.  We need to ask ourselves what we did before the advent of drugs?  First we had less disease as we ate more whole nutritious foods that were not processed to death.  We were able to assimilate the proper nutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes that our body needed to keep us from disease and maintain health.

Causes Of Headaches

Headaches are our body asking for the proper amount of nutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes.  It is not a lack of drugs in our system that creates headaches.  Your body is not craving aspirin, Tylenol or Advil.  By simply increasing your water intake, eating fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts from an organic source you can stop your body from ever getting another headache.  The headache is a sign from your body to you that it requires something that you are not providing for it through your diet.   

Chiropractic Care?

Headaches can also be caused by stress or nerve impingement.  When a bone misaligns in your neck a nerve usually gets pinched and creates pain.  Chiropractors are experts in musculoskeletal and neurological issues with the body.  This is the only doctor that understands how your body can be thrown out of homeostasis by having a bone in your spine misalign.  Chiropractors gently move the bones back into place so that the nerve is no longer pinched.  Often, once the nerve no longer has any impingement the pain from a headache disappears either instantaneously or up to a few hours after the adjustment.

Diet Overhaul For Health

With a diet change to more natural foods and chiropractic care many people have experienced a life without headaches.  How would you feel if you were able to never have another headache in your life?  With the proper nutrition and chiropractic care this is possible. 

Let me clarify nutrition.  I always let my clients know that the body needs nutrition that comes in its original packaging.  So anything that has been put into a can, plastic bag, or box has absolutely no nutritional value.  Some people will question me on this.  Understand that if food is in a container that it didn't originally come in it has been heated to a point where it kills most of the vitamins, it has been irradiated to kill all of the bacteria and all the living cells within the food not to mention mutating the the foods DNA, chemicals have been added to make sure bacteria or mold does not grow inside the packaging while on the grocery store shelf, and man made vitamins and minerals have been added that were concocted in a chem. lab.  These man made vitamins and minerals that have been reintroduced are actually hindering your bodies natural processes within all of the systems.  Fruits, vegetables, nuts, oils and other original foods have the perfect amount of nutrients and enzymes to break down what needs to be broken down.  Packaged foods are completely void of enzymes so the nutrients that are actually reintroduced into the dead packaged stuff is not able to be digested by the digestive system.  This is a huge reason we are the wealthiest country in the world and one of the sickest.  We are literally starving ourselves to death.

Starving Our Bodies And Still Getting Fatter

When our bodies don't receive the proper amount of nutrients and enzymes our bodies aren't able to ward off pathogens or properly maintain health.  This topic alone would take up an entire book.  Why are we eating and needing to eat more and more?  Because we are eating dead toxic food and the body has to deal with the garbage we are constantly being encouraged to ingest by the food industry and their commercials.  Because the packaged food is so toxic the body must sequester the food into fat cells.  So the body continues to make more and more fat cells to help remove the toxins from the system in order to fight the uphill battle of maintaining health.  

• I encourage you to try this experiment.  Eat an apple or two or what ever fruit you like.  Feel the energy and how you are able to continue with your day.  After about an hour eat a whole hand full of something that has been boxed, like crackers.  How do you feel after ingesting the crackers?  Lethargic, low energy, acid reflux maybe?  You decide which food your body enjoys more. 

Toxic Cesspool

Headaches are also a reaction to all of these toxins that we ingest on a daily basis.  By considering the diet alterations that I am suggesting you are going to reduce your headaches and eventually alleviate them completely, increase your metabolism and drop fat, increase energy, and have a great nights sleep every night, without drugs. 

Move And Loose FAT, Only Way

I encourage you to try the above suggestions for one month but remember you must get off your behind and exercise.  There is no pill, no stomach surgery, no 30 minute walk 3 times a week that is going to reduce an obese person to a thin person in a short period of time.  If you really want to get healthy and loose weight you must get up and exercise.  The human body was made to move and changing the channel with the TV remote is not moving. 

You must find things that you like to do that exert you.  Ride a bike an hour a day, walk an hour a day, jog, swim, aerobics, dance, row boat, canoe, do what ever it takes to make the time to devote to your health and increase your life by exercising every single day.  Aren't you worth it?  Think of your family and what will happen if you fall ill with diabetes, morbid obesity, heart attack or die.  Put down the Hagan Daas and take charge of your life and get healthy.  I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!!

Dr. Betts