CEO Newsletter 2008 #3
Contents
1. We Get Letters
2. Stress is a Killer at Work, say Doctors
3. Linking Your Cholesterol To Stress
4. Selling Monkeys
1. We Get Letters
Hi Richard, - Thanks a great call again last night.
I would like to acknowledge you and Susan and all the people associated with CEO for all the hard work that you do and have done. Your commitment to Chiropractic, to health and to the globe is an inspiration.
I thought that I could express to you my experience with CEO in my first year. My first year with CEO was one of the most challenging but also rewarding years that I have had as a chiropractor. This year saw many changes take place within the practice across the board from our dialogue, technique, hiring new staff, our health care class and the understanding about what it is that we do in the practice. To illustrate the changes, our declaration of intent changed and evolved 5 times to where it is now.
For me the most significant changes and growth occurred with my understanding of the nervous system, the brain, consciousness and how we as chiropractors with the adjustment can influence and engage the nervous system on profound levels. I also understand and acknowledge that it is so much more than that.
I have also had the opportunity to read the Green books with new eyes and understanding with all the conversations and information that I got from our discussions and conference calls.
In short, my science, art and philosophy has been significantly engaged and awoken and I am very grateful to CEO for that.
Thank you
Ricardo Jorge D.C.
Editor’s notes: Thanks Ricardo, Your commitment to Neurologically Based Chiropractic will change the course of the profession in South Africa. I know that you have already reached across the ocean, and because of your efforts we now have a CEO member in Dubai. I do hope you are successful in getting me to speak at the South African Congress.
2. Stress is a Killer at Work, say Doctors - Wednesday January 23 2008 - Independent.ie
Work really can kill you, according to a new study providing the strongest evidence yet of how on-the-job stress raises the risk of heart disease by disrupting the body's internal systems.
The findings from a longrunning study involving more than 10,000 British civil servants also suggest stressinduced biological changes may play a more direct role than previously thought, said Tarani Chandola, an epidemiologist at University College London. “This is the first large-scale population study looking at the effects of stress measured from everyday working life on heart disease,” said Chandola, who led the study.
Sceptical “One of the problems is people have been sceptical whether work stress really affects a person biologically.” Heart disease is the world's leading cause of death. It is caused by fatty deposits that harden and block arteries, high blood pressure which damages blood vessels, and other factors. The researchers measured stress among the civil servants by asking questions about their job demands such as how much control they had at work, how often they took breaks, and how pressed for time they were during the day. The team conducted seven surveys over a 12-year period and found chronically stressed workers — people determined to be under severe pressure in the first two of the surveys — had a 68pc higher risk of developing heart disease. The link was strongest among people under 50, Chandola said. “This study adds to the evidence that the work stress-coronary heart disease association is causal in nature,” the researchers wrote in the European Heart Journal. Behaviour and biological changes likely explain why stress at work causes heart disease, Chandola said. For one, stressed workers eat unhealthy food, smoke, drink and skip exercise all behaviours linked to heart disease.
In the study, stressed workers also had lowered heart rate variability — a sign of a poorly functioning weak heart — and higher-than-normal levels of cortisol, a “stress” hormone that provides a burst of energy for a fight-or-flight response. Too much cortisol circulating in the blood stream can damage blood vessels and the heart, Chandola said. “If you are constantly stressed out these biological stress systems become abnormal,” Chandola said.
Editor’s notes: Thanks to Dr. Tammy Verlaan for this article. Once I read it I thought the next article from Dr. Rich Aplin was a perfect follow up - thanks to Dr. Aplin as well. Dr. Aplin runs a Chiropractic office called InVision Chiropractic and it is a 100% CEO Neurologically based, InVision supported office.
3. Linking Your Cholesterol To Stress
NEW YORK - For some people, the body's reaction to stress may raise the odds of developing high cholesterol, the results of a new study suggest. Researchers in the U.K. found that healthy middle-age adults whose cholesterol rose in response to a stressful task were more likely than their peers without this increase to have high cholesterol several years later.
It's been known that blood cholesterol can show a short-lived rise in response to stress. The new findings suggest that these transient increases may predict long-term elevations in cholesterol. A number of studies have linked chronic stress to a higher risk of heart disease, and it's possible that stress-related changes in cholesterol may contribute.
To see if stress-related spikes in cholesterol can have long-range effects, the researchers followed 199 middle-aged adults over 3 years. At the start of the study, participants performed two moderately stressful computer-based tasks; blood samples were taken before and after the tests to measure any changes in cholesterol levels. The men and women were then divided into three groups based on the extent of their cholesterol response.
Three years later, participants had their blood cholesterol measured again. Those in the group with the greatest cholesterol response to stress were the most likely to have high cholesterol. Overall, 56
percent had a total cholesterol level that surpassed the cut-off for diagnosing high cholesterol, compared with only 16 percent of the group whose cholesterol levels had been least affected by stress.
Changes in metabolism
Even when the researchers weighed other factors such as age, body weight and smoking, the group with the highest stress response was 13 times more likely than the group with the lowest response to have high cholesterol 3 years later. They were also four times more likely to have high levels of LDL cholesterol, the "bad" form that contributes to artery-clogging plaques.
The findings suggest that chronic stress can contribute to high cholesterol in some people, though the reason is unclear. One possibility, they note, is that changes in metabolism in response to stress ultimately cause the liver to boost production of LDL particles.
There is also evidence that stress can temporarily limit the body's clearance of cholesterol from the blood. According to the researchers, it's possible that such effects could be modified if people changed their conscious reactions to stress.
Stress management has been shown to lower levels of the stress hormones cortisol and epinephrine. However, to date, no study has been conducted linking stress management to lowering cholesterol.
Dr. Aplin’s Note:
It is amazing that I was having this very conversation with some patients last week. Let me offer some “light” to “The Rest of the Story”. When our nerve system adapts poorly to stress, our body releases stress hormones. It does so as part of the “fight or flight” response. These stress hormones are inflammatory products and are released into your bloodstream. Cholesterol is released, as a protective measure, in response to these inflammatory products – to cover areas of irritation along the arterial walls. The body may use this process as a feedback mechanism to monitor its response to stress.
Reducing this protective material with cholesterol reducing drugs may well worsen the stress response. This may be the missing link in the increased occurrence of life threatening cardiac arrest and the use of cholesterol reducing drugs.
Improving the stress response makes more sense than ever before. The Center for Family Wellness is dedicated to helping our family of patients improve their stress response.
To learn more, ask about our NeuroDynamics Program.
Dr. Aplin
4. Selling Monkeys
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it! The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 ! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. 'Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.' The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere! Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.
Editor’s Note: Nuff said!
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
Web site: http:www,subluxationinhd.com
1. We Get Letters
2. Stress is a Killer at Work, say Doctors
3. Linking Your Cholesterol To Stress
4. Selling Monkeys
1. We Get Letters
Hi Richard, - Thanks a great call again last night.
I would like to acknowledge you and Susan and all the people associated with CEO for all the hard work that you do and have done. Your commitment to Chiropractic, to health and to the globe is an inspiration.
I thought that I could express to you my experience with CEO in my first year. My first year with CEO was one of the most challenging but also rewarding years that I have had as a chiropractor. This year saw many changes take place within the practice across the board from our dialogue, technique, hiring new staff, our health care class and the understanding about what it is that we do in the practice. To illustrate the changes, our declaration of intent changed and evolved 5 times to where it is now.
For me the most significant changes and growth occurred with my understanding of the nervous system, the brain, consciousness and how we as chiropractors with the adjustment can influence and engage the nervous system on profound levels. I also understand and acknowledge that it is so much more than that.
I have also had the opportunity to read the Green books with new eyes and understanding with all the conversations and information that I got from our discussions and conference calls.
In short, my science, art and philosophy has been significantly engaged and awoken and I am very grateful to CEO for that.
Thank you
Ricardo Jorge D.C.
Editor’s notes: Thanks Ricardo, Your commitment to Neurologically Based Chiropractic will change the course of the profession in South Africa. I know that you have already reached across the ocean, and because of your efforts we now have a CEO member in Dubai. I do hope you are successful in getting me to speak at the South African Congress.
2. Stress is a Killer at Work, say Doctors - Wednesday January 23 2008 - Independent.ie
Work really can kill you, according to a new study providing the strongest evidence yet of how on-the-job stress raises the risk of heart disease by disrupting the body's internal systems.
The findings from a longrunning study involving more than 10,000 British civil servants also suggest stressinduced biological changes may play a more direct role than previously thought, said Tarani Chandola, an epidemiologist at University College London. “This is the first large-scale population study looking at the effects of stress measured from everyday working life on heart disease,” said Chandola, who led the study.
Sceptical “One of the problems is people have been sceptical whether work stress really affects a person biologically.” Heart disease is the world's leading cause of death. It is caused by fatty deposits that harden and block arteries, high blood pressure which damages blood vessels, and other factors. The researchers measured stress among the civil servants by asking questions about their job demands such as how much control they had at work, how often they took breaks, and how pressed for time they were during the day. The team conducted seven surveys over a 12-year period and found chronically stressed workers — people determined to be under severe pressure in the first two of the surveys — had a 68pc higher risk of developing heart disease. The link was strongest among people under 50, Chandola said. “This study adds to the evidence that the work stress-coronary heart disease association is causal in nature,” the researchers wrote in the European Heart Journal. Behaviour and biological changes likely explain why stress at work causes heart disease, Chandola said. For one, stressed workers eat unhealthy food, smoke, drink and skip exercise all behaviours linked to heart disease.
In the study, stressed workers also had lowered heart rate variability — a sign of a poorly functioning weak heart — and higher-than-normal levels of cortisol, a “stress” hormone that provides a burst of energy for a fight-or-flight response. Too much cortisol circulating in the blood stream can damage blood vessels and the heart, Chandola said. “If you are constantly stressed out these biological stress systems become abnormal,” Chandola said.
Editor’s notes: Thanks to Dr. Tammy Verlaan for this article. Once I read it I thought the next article from Dr. Rich Aplin was a perfect follow up - thanks to Dr. Aplin as well. Dr. Aplin runs a Chiropractic office called InVision Chiropractic and it is a 100% CEO Neurologically based, InVision supported office.
3. Linking Your Cholesterol To Stress
NEW YORK - For some people, the body's reaction to stress may raise the odds of developing high cholesterol, the results of a new study suggest. Researchers in the U.K. found that healthy middle-age adults whose cholesterol rose in response to a stressful task were more likely than their peers without this increase to have high cholesterol several years later.
It's been known that blood cholesterol can show a short-lived rise in response to stress. The new findings suggest that these transient increases may predict long-term elevations in cholesterol. A number of studies have linked chronic stress to a higher risk of heart disease, and it's possible that stress-related changes in cholesterol may contribute.
To see if stress-related spikes in cholesterol can have long-range effects, the researchers followed 199 middle-aged adults over 3 years. At the start of the study, participants performed two moderately stressful computer-based tasks; blood samples were taken before and after the tests to measure any changes in cholesterol levels. The men and women were then divided into three groups based on the extent of their cholesterol response.
Three years later, participants had their blood cholesterol measured again. Those in the group with the greatest cholesterol response to stress were the most likely to have high cholesterol. Overall, 56
percent had a total cholesterol level that surpassed the cut-off for diagnosing high cholesterol, compared with only 16 percent of the group whose cholesterol levels had been least affected by stress.
Changes in metabolism
Even when the researchers weighed other factors such as age, body weight and smoking, the group with the highest stress response was 13 times more likely than the group with the lowest response to have high cholesterol 3 years later. They were also four times more likely to have high levels of LDL cholesterol, the "bad" form that contributes to artery-clogging plaques.
The findings suggest that chronic stress can contribute to high cholesterol in some people, though the reason is unclear. One possibility, they note, is that changes in metabolism in response to stress ultimately cause the liver to boost production of LDL particles.
There is also evidence that stress can temporarily limit the body's clearance of cholesterol from the blood. According to the researchers, it's possible that such effects could be modified if people changed their conscious reactions to stress.
Stress management has been shown to lower levels of the stress hormones cortisol and epinephrine. However, to date, no study has been conducted linking stress management to lowering cholesterol.
Dr. Aplin’s Note:
It is amazing that I was having this very conversation with some patients last week. Let me offer some “light” to “The Rest of the Story”. When our nerve system adapts poorly to stress, our body releases stress hormones. It does so as part of the “fight or flight” response. These stress hormones are inflammatory products and are released into your bloodstream. Cholesterol is released, as a protective measure, in response to these inflammatory products – to cover areas of irritation along the arterial walls. The body may use this process as a feedback mechanism to monitor its response to stress.
Reducing this protective material with cholesterol reducing drugs may well worsen the stress response. This may be the missing link in the increased occurrence of life threatening cardiac arrest and the use of cholesterol reducing drugs.
Improving the stress response makes more sense than ever before. The Center for Family Wellness is dedicated to helping our family of patients improve their stress response.
To learn more, ask about our NeuroDynamics Program.
Dr. Aplin
4. Selling Monkeys
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it! The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 ! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. 'Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.' The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere! Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.
Editor’s Note: Nuff said!
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
Web site: http:www,subluxationinhd.com
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