CEO Newsletter 2008 - Number 1
Contents
1. Studies Show Yoga has Multiple Benefits
2. The Medicated Child
1. Studies Show Yoga has Multiple Benefits By C. Vidyashankar, MDFriday, Dec 28, 2007 9:44PM UTC CHANNAI, India (Reuters Health) -
Yoga induces a feeling of well-being in healthy people, and can reverse the clinical and biochemical changes associated with metabolic syndrome, according to results of studies from Sweden and India. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity and high blood sugar. Dr. R.P. Agrawal, of the SP Medical College, Bikaner, India, and colleagues evaluated the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation in 101 adults with features of metabolic syndrome. In the study, 55 adults received three months of regular yoga including standard postures and Raja Yoga, a form of transcendental meditation daily, while the remaining received standard care. Waist circumference, blood pressure, blood sugar, and triglycerides were significantly lower, and "good" HDL cholesterol levels were higher in the yoga group as compared to controls, Agrawal's team reports in the journal Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. In the second study, published online December 19 in BioMed Central Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Dr. Anette Kjellgren from the University of Karlstad, Sweden and colleagues evaluated the beneficial effects of yoga-like breathing exercises on healthy volunteers. Fifty-five adults were advised to practice "Sudarshan Kriya," which involves cycles of slow normal and rapid breathing exercises. The exercises were practiced for an hour daily, six days a week for six weeks, while 48 controls were advised to relax in an armchair for 15 minutes daily. At the end of the study period, feelings of anxiety, stress and depression were significantly lower and levels of optimism significantly higher in the yoga group compared to the control group, Kjellgren and colleagues report. Yoga induces a "relaxation response" associated with reduced nervous system activity and a feeling of well-being probably due to an increase in antioxidants and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, they suggest. Yoga not only helps in prevention of lifestyle diseases, but can also be "a powerful adjunct therapy when these diseases arise," co-investigator Dr. Faahri Saatiglou, from the University of Oslo, told Reuters Health. "We do not emphasize this point enough in our Western health care." SOURCES: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, December 2007, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, online December 19, 2007.
Editor’s notes: Interesting outcomes but it would have been better if they had some other methods of measuring the benefits. The subjective responses of “feeling better” sounds like Chiropractic before we could measure neurological responses.
Over the Christmas break I found myself in a discussion about the benefits of meditation with a 30 year practitioner who became very defensive when we started talking about being able to measure the brain wave state. Her response was, “How do you know that the brain frequency is the right one for me”? What it really came down to was the challenge we face every day – fear of learning that what you believe to be the truth, just isn’t so. What really got her fired up was my suggesting that we monitor her brain activity during her meditation to see if she was really in a low Alpha wave pattern. The unspoken dread of, what if I’m not in the true meditative state, prompted her reaction. Never mind that the brain wave patterns have been documented for 50 years; she “knew” that she was doing it right. The discussion prompted me to want to learn more about “Meditation” and the universe (in this case being Dr. Ken Vinton, who must of picked up on my conversation from 2000 miles distant) provided, when I arrived back in the office in January, I found several e-mails from him all about - you guessed it – “Meditation” There are times when Ken can be very scary – in a nice way mind you. So thanks Ken! I discovered that there was much more to meditation than sitting in a lotus position and doing some breathing exercises. While I have been focused on the brain wave patterns and frequency responses, there are other consideration as well. I’ll share some of these in the newsletter articles.
In our quest for healing, especially within the natural approach associated with Chiropractic, we will be directed to varied approaches such as: yoga, exercise, supplements, etc. In my experience the profession applies so many other alternative concepts that the adjustment tends to be lost. Our position has always been that the Adjustment is the singular most effective approach in calling the nervous system into action. I compare the adjustment to hitting the default button on a computer. The more specific the adjustment, the less wasted energy the body generates in the healing process. With this in mind, add other healing activities to the mix – first the specific adjustment (specific in direction force and intent), then re-training of the nervous system into a new (corrective) neural response. This retraining could be anything from massage to biofeedback, including yoga, breathing exercises, neuromuscular reintegration, speech therapy etc. The point I’m making here is that “We” can use all the information and benefits of other healing methods in practice; however, there are two very important concepts to remember: 1. Before we just start recommending a particular therapy, we must first must study about what we speak and 2. The Chiropractic adjustment is still the most powerful method of resetting the neurological response!
2. THE MEDICATED CHILD Tuesday, January 8, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBSFRONTLINE examines why more than 6 million American children are taking powerful psychiatric drugs www.pbs.org/frontline/medicatedchild
In recent years, there’s been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. “It’s really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this age,” child psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Bacon tells FRONTLINE. “It’s a gamble. And I tell parents there’s no way to know what’s going to work.”
In The Medicated Child, airing Tuesday, January 8, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria confronts psychiatrists, researchers and government regulators about the risks and benefits of prescription drugs for troubled children. The biggest current controversy surrounds the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Formerly called manic depression, bipolar disorder was long believed to exist only in adults, but, in the mid-1990s, bipolar in children began to be diagnosed at much higher rates, sometimes in kids as young as 4 years old. “The rates of bipolar diagnoses in children have increased markedly in many communities over the last five to seven years,” says Dr. Steven Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. “I think the real question is, are those diagnoses right? And in truth, I don’t think we yet know the answer.”
Like many of the 1 million children now diagnosed with bipolar, 5-year-old Jacob Solomon was initially believed to suffer from an attention deficit disorder. His parents reluctantly started him on Ritalin, but over the next five years, Jacob would be put on one drug after another. “It all started to feel out of control,” Jacob’s father, Ron, told FRONTLINE. “Nobody ever said we can work with this through therapy and things like that. Everywhere we looked it was, ‘Take meds, take meds, take meds.’”
Over the years, Jacob’s multiple medications have helped improve his mood, but they’ve also left him with a severe tic in his neck which doctors are having trouble fully explaining. “We’re dealing with developing minds and brains, and medications have a whole different impact in the young developing child than they do in an adult,” says Dr. Marianne Wamboldt, the chief of psychiatry at Denver Children’s Hospital. “We don't understand that impact very well. That’s where we’re still in the Dark Ages.”
DJ Koontz was diagnosed with bipolar at 4 years old, after his temper tantrums became more frequent and explosive. He was recently prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs. “It is a little worrisome to me because he is so young,” says DJ’s mother, Christine. “If he didn’t take it, though, I don’t know if we could function as a family. It’s almost a do-or-die situation over here.” DJ’s medicines seem to be helping him in the short run, but the longer-term outlook is still uncertain. “What’s not really clear is whether many of the kids who are called bipolar have anything that’s related to this very well-studied disorder in adults,” says Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute for Mental Health. “It’s not clear that people with that adult illness started with what we’re now calling bipolar in children. Nor is it clear that the kids who have this disorder are going to grow up to have what we used to call manic-depressive illness in adulthood.”
While some urge caution when it comes to bipolar in children, FRONTLINE talks with others who argue that we should intervene with drug treatments at even younger ages for children genetically predisposed to the disorder. “The theory is that if you get in early, before the first full mood episode, then perhaps we can delay the onset to full mania,” says Dr. Kiki Chang of Stanford University. “And if that’s the case, perhaps finding the right medication early on can protect a brain so that these children never do progress to full bipolar disorder.”
FRONTLINE’s 2001 documentary Medicating Kids can be watched online at www.pbs.org/frontline/shows/medicating
The Medicated Child is a FRONTLINE co-production with RAINMedia, Inc. The writer and producer is Marcela Gaviria. The co-producer is Will Cohen. FRONTLINE is produced by WGBH Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Park Foundation. FRONTLINE is closed-captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers and described for people who are blind or visually impaired by the Media Access Group at WGBH. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. The executive producer of FRONTLINE is David Fanning.
pbs.org/pressroom
Press contactsDiane Buxton (617) 300-5375 diane_buxton@wgbh.org
Editor’s notes: Perhaps we are sending the wrong drug pushers to jail – How about we free all the marijuana pushers and jail all the real criminals - the drug lobbyists, drug executives, drug sales people and MD pushers responsible for inflicting this crud on the kids!
Ad Summum Nitamur!
Richard G. Barwell, DC,
Chiropractic Equity Offices Inc.,
#503 - 188 Pinellas Lane, Cocoa Beach Fl, USA – 32931
Phone 321 868 5690
E-mail: tequityc@aol.com
1. Studies Show Yoga has Multiple Benefits
2. The Medicated Child
1. Studies Show Yoga has Multiple Benefits By C. Vidyashankar, MDFriday, Dec 28, 2007 9:44PM UTC CHANNAI, India (Reuters Health) -
Yoga induces a feeling of well-being in healthy people, and can reverse the clinical and biochemical changes associated with metabolic syndrome, according to results of studies from Sweden and India. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity and high blood sugar. Dr. R.P. Agrawal, of the SP Medical College, Bikaner, India, and colleagues evaluated the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation in 101 adults with features of metabolic syndrome. In the study, 55 adults received three months of regular yoga including standard postures and Raja Yoga, a form of transcendental meditation daily, while the remaining received standard care. Waist circumference, blood pressure, blood sugar, and triglycerides were significantly lower, and "good" HDL cholesterol levels were higher in the yoga group as compared to controls, Agrawal's team reports in the journal Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. In the second study, published online December 19 in BioMed Central Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Dr. Anette Kjellgren from the University of Karlstad, Sweden and colleagues evaluated the beneficial effects of yoga-like breathing exercises on healthy volunteers. Fifty-five adults were advised to practice "Sudarshan Kriya," which involves cycles of slow normal and rapid breathing exercises. The exercises were practiced for an hour daily, six days a week for six weeks, while 48 controls were advised to relax in an armchair for 15 minutes daily. At the end of the study period, feelings of anxiety, stress and depression were significantly lower and levels of optimism significantly higher in the yoga group compared to the control group, Kjellgren and colleagues report. Yoga induces a "relaxation response" associated with reduced nervous system activity and a feeling of well-being probably due to an increase in antioxidants and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, they suggest. Yoga not only helps in prevention of lifestyle diseases, but can also be "a powerful adjunct therapy when these diseases arise," co-investigator Dr. Faahri Saatiglou, from the University of Oslo, told Reuters Health. "We do not emphasize this point enough in our Western health care." SOURCES: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, December 2007, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, online December 19, 2007.
Editor’s notes: Interesting outcomes but it would have been better if they had some other methods of measuring the benefits. The subjective responses of “feeling better” sounds like Chiropractic before we could measure neurological responses.
Over the Christmas break I found myself in a discussion about the benefits of meditation with a 30 year practitioner who became very defensive when we started talking about being able to measure the brain wave state. Her response was, “How do you know that the brain frequency is the right one for me”? What it really came down to was the challenge we face every day – fear of learning that what you believe to be the truth, just isn’t so. What really got her fired up was my suggesting that we monitor her brain activity during her meditation to see if she was really in a low Alpha wave pattern. The unspoken dread of, what if I’m not in the true meditative state, prompted her reaction. Never mind that the brain wave patterns have been documented for 50 years; she “knew” that she was doing it right. The discussion prompted me to want to learn more about “Meditation” and the universe (in this case being Dr. Ken Vinton, who must of picked up on my conversation from 2000 miles distant) provided, when I arrived back in the office in January, I found several e-mails from him all about - you guessed it – “Meditation” There are times when Ken can be very scary – in a nice way mind you. So thanks Ken! I discovered that there was much more to meditation than sitting in a lotus position and doing some breathing exercises. While I have been focused on the brain wave patterns and frequency responses, there are other consideration as well. I’ll share some of these in the newsletter articles.
In our quest for healing, especially within the natural approach associated with Chiropractic, we will be directed to varied approaches such as: yoga, exercise, supplements, etc. In my experience the profession applies so many other alternative concepts that the adjustment tends to be lost. Our position has always been that the Adjustment is the singular most effective approach in calling the nervous system into action. I compare the adjustment to hitting the default button on a computer. The more specific the adjustment, the less wasted energy the body generates in the healing process. With this in mind, add other healing activities to the mix – first the specific adjustment (specific in direction force and intent), then re-training of the nervous system into a new (corrective) neural response. This retraining could be anything from massage to biofeedback, including yoga, breathing exercises, neuromuscular reintegration, speech therapy etc. The point I’m making here is that “We” can use all the information and benefits of other healing methods in practice; however, there are two very important concepts to remember: 1. Before we just start recommending a particular therapy, we must first must study about what we speak and 2. The Chiropractic adjustment is still the most powerful method of resetting the neurological response!
2. THE MEDICATED CHILD Tuesday, January 8, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBSFRONTLINE examines why more than 6 million American children are taking powerful psychiatric drugs www.pbs.org/frontline/medicatedchild
In recent years, there’s been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. “It’s really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this age,” child psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Bacon tells FRONTLINE. “It’s a gamble. And I tell parents there’s no way to know what’s going to work.”
In The Medicated Child, airing Tuesday, January 8, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria confronts psychiatrists, researchers and government regulators about the risks and benefits of prescription drugs for troubled children. The biggest current controversy surrounds the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Formerly called manic depression, bipolar disorder was long believed to exist only in adults, but, in the mid-1990s, bipolar in children began to be diagnosed at much higher rates, sometimes in kids as young as 4 years old. “The rates of bipolar diagnoses in children have increased markedly in many communities over the last five to seven years,” says Dr. Steven Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. “I think the real question is, are those diagnoses right? And in truth, I don’t think we yet know the answer.”
Like many of the 1 million children now diagnosed with bipolar, 5-year-old Jacob Solomon was initially believed to suffer from an attention deficit disorder. His parents reluctantly started him on Ritalin, but over the next five years, Jacob would be put on one drug after another. “It all started to feel out of control,” Jacob’s father, Ron, told FRONTLINE. “Nobody ever said we can work with this through therapy and things like that. Everywhere we looked it was, ‘Take meds, take meds, take meds.’”
Over the years, Jacob’s multiple medications have helped improve his mood, but they’ve also left him with a severe tic in his neck which doctors are having trouble fully explaining. “We’re dealing with developing minds and brains, and medications have a whole different impact in the young developing child than they do in an adult,” says Dr. Marianne Wamboldt, the chief of psychiatry at Denver Children’s Hospital. “We don't understand that impact very well. That’s where we’re still in the Dark Ages.”
DJ Koontz was diagnosed with bipolar at 4 years old, after his temper tantrums became more frequent and explosive. He was recently prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs. “It is a little worrisome to me because he is so young,” says DJ’s mother, Christine. “If he didn’t take it, though, I don’t know if we could function as a family. It’s almost a do-or-die situation over here.” DJ’s medicines seem to be helping him in the short run, but the longer-term outlook is still uncertain. “What’s not really clear is whether many of the kids who are called bipolar have anything that’s related to this very well-studied disorder in adults,” says Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute for Mental Health. “It’s not clear that people with that adult illness started with what we’re now calling bipolar in children. Nor is it clear that the kids who have this disorder are going to grow up to have what we used to call manic-depressive illness in adulthood.”
While some urge caution when it comes to bipolar in children, FRONTLINE talks with others who argue that we should intervene with drug treatments at even younger ages for children genetically predisposed to the disorder. “The theory is that if you get in early, before the first full mood episode, then perhaps we can delay the onset to full mania,” says Dr. Kiki Chang of Stanford University. “And if that’s the case, perhaps finding the right medication early on can protect a brain so that these children never do progress to full bipolar disorder.”
FRONTLINE’s 2001 documentary Medicating Kids can be watched online at www.pbs.org/frontline/shows/medicating
The Medicated Child is a FRONTLINE co-production with RAINMedia, Inc. The writer and producer is Marcela Gaviria. The co-producer is Will Cohen. FRONTLINE is produced by WGBH Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Park Foundation. FRONTLINE is closed-captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers and described for people who are blind or visually impaired by the Media Access Group at WGBH. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. The executive producer of FRONTLINE is David Fanning.
pbs.org/pressroom
Press contactsDiane Buxton (617) 300-5375 diane_buxton@wgbh.org
Editor’s notes: Perhaps we are sending the wrong drug pushers to jail – How about we free all the marijuana pushers and jail all the real criminals - the drug lobbyists, drug executives, drug sales people and MD pushers responsible for inflicting this crud on the kids!
Ad Summum Nitamur!
Richard G. Barwell, DC,
Chiropractic Equity Offices Inc.,
#503 - 188 Pinellas Lane, Cocoa Beach Fl, USA – 32931
Phone 321 868 5690
E-mail: tequityc@aol.com
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