Dear Steve,

DID YOU KNOW that a new report from Physician Advocacy Institute states that physician practice ownership by corporations, including health insurers, private equity firms, and large pharmacy chains, reached 30.1% as of January 2024 for the first time, surpassing ownership by hospitals and health systems (28.4%). As a result, about three in five physician practices are now owned by nonphysicians.

Physicians have an ethical responsibility to their patients' health. Corporate entities have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders and are motivated to put profits first. These interests can conflict with providing the best medical care to patients.

"Given recent trends, we are concerned that some transactions may generate profits for those firms at the expense of patients' health, workers' safety, quality of care, and affordable healthcare for patients and taxpayers," said the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Justice (DOJ) and Health and Human Services (HHS) departments in a rare joint statement.

Please do your due diligence when seeking out a physician.

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Steve: Two habits to assimilate into your routine that have long lasting healing benefits are to eat slower and to eat earlier.

Eat Slower

Mastication (chewing) starts the digestive process in the mouth instead of the gastrointestinal tract. When you are chewing each bite of food instead of inhaling, this takes stress off your gut, thus reducing the risk of indigestion, gas, bloating, and nausea.

It takes approximately 20 minutes for the stomach to alert the brain to satiety (feelings of fullness). Thus, chewing slows you down while limiting the amount food you consume until you reach the 20 minute alert.

The gold standard for number of chews per bite of food is 21. While this is not always sustainable for modern lifestyles, 10 chews per bite is certainly attainable.

Eat Earlier

Late night eating is one of the worst eating habits we incur. Weight gain, blood sugar imbalance, gastrointestinal reflux, and dysfunctional sleep are but a few of the deleterious effects from late night eating.

The process of digestion usually takes four hours or longer. If the majority of our dinner/dessert is digested while we are sleeping, most of those calories go unused and turn into fat. Moreover, when we are spending a good portion of our sleep digesting, we cannot rest and repair.

The gold standard to stop eating or drinking anything caloric is three hours before bedtime. Again, this is not always sustainable for modern lifestyles, but stopping two hours before is certainly attainable.

If you read this newsletter, you are aware of the litany of side effects that come with long-term proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use for gastrointestinal reflux (GERD). You may know these medications by the names Nexium, Omeprazole, Prevacid, Protonix, and among others.

A 65 year-old male came to see Steve because he was concerned about being on a PPI long-term.

After reviewing every aspect of his diet and lifestyle, Steve found numerous triggers that could be adjusted so his client could stop the PPI.

For example, the daily combination of coffee, cinnamon, turmeric, kombucha, apple cider vinegar, fluid cow's milk, and extreme stress made him extremely acidic.

Steve and his client agreed upon alternatives for all the food and beverage insults. Moreover, they found a stress management technique that would fit his lifestyle and that he would enjoy.

After adhering to the aforementioned for two weeks to relax his system, the client followed a 10 week weaning off the PPI medication.

After three short months, he successfully weaned off the PPI. The GERD that had plagued him for so many years now no longer exists!

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The April 2024 Dynamic Chiropractic reported that every year, 17 million people worldwide suffer from a stroke and the effects are serious. Long term disability, along with physical, psychological, emotional and financially devastating outcomes.

Rehabilitation often includes physical therapy and other approaches, that offer a slow rate of recovery. However, during a study, a single session of a chiropractic spinal adjustment was shown to increase the force of the foot muscles by 16%, in those without a stroke The control group became weaker with the same foot during repeated contractions. In stroke patients a single chiropractic adjustment increased the foot muscle strength by 64.2%.

The study concluded that the chiropractic adjustment of the spine altered the excitability of specific pathways that run from the spine, to the brain to the muscles. All helping to prevent muscle fatigue while inciting muscle strength, which would be important for stroke recovery. Based on this information, it begs the question: “Shouldn’t chiropractic care be regularly included in any patient’s rehabilitation program?”

Seems to me it should especially since it’s amazing what the body can do when there is a better balance within the nervous system. That’s why it’s important for adults and children to be checked regularly for spinal misalignments. A specialty that only chiropractors' study in order to determine stress patterns in the spine that can lead to a multitude of symptoms. Chiropractic makes sure that nerve signals are working properly, for positive changes to occur. What health condition are you ready to let Chiropractic care help you with?

Dr. Liselotte Schuster is a Holistic Family Chiropractor and has been in practice since 1989. She tailors each visit by using a variety of techniques that she feels are most effective. She loves seeing children and adults reach their full potential, trusting in the healing powers of their body. Dr. Schuster is in the same office as Bonnie & Steve Minsky as they have been in practice together for 33 years. She can be reached at (847)509-9067 or drliloschuster@sbcglobal.net

Bonnie, Steve, Liselotte, Lori, Sharron, Cindy, Diana, Ileana, and Carolyn