“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

Mental Attitude: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs. Antidepressants.

Only a third of patients respond fully to antidepressant medications and there is no consensus on what to try next. In a study of 469 patients from the United Kingdom who did not fully respond to initial treatment, 235 patients again received the usual care (antidepressants) and 234 again received the usual care plus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT is a form of treatment that focuses on examining the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to find patterns in thinking that cause negative thoughts leading to negative feelings and self-destructive behaviors. 46% of participants who received CBT as an adjunct to usual care saw improvements after 6 months compared to only 22% among those who solely used antidepressants. Those in the CBT group experienced less anxiety, were more likely to go into remission, and experienced fewer and milder symptoms than those in the other group.
The Lancet, December 2012

Health Alert: Childhood Obesity Rates Falling!

During the first decade of the 21st century, childhood obesity rates among children in lower income families in the United States have decreased (14.94% in 2010 vs. 15.21% in 2003).
The Journal of the American Medical Association, December 2012

Diet: Red Wine and Cancer.

Meat consumption increases the risk of prostate cancer. Men who consumed the most red meat had a 30% increased risk of cancer. Processed red meat was associated with a 10% increased risk of prostate cancer with every 10 grams (about one-third of an ounce) of increased intake.
University of Leicester, December 2012

Exercise: Good Vibrations.

Within 7 months of starting a poor diet, normal mice became obese, with significant damage to their immune and skeletal systems. Daily 15-minute treatments of low-intensity vibration, barely perceptible to human touch, helped restore the immune and skeletal systems of the mice towards those of mice fed a regular diet. If this effect translates to humans, it could have benefits for obese people suffering from immune problems related to their obesity.
The FASEB Journal, December 2012

Chiropractic: Quit Smoking!

Smokers suffering from spinal disorders and related back pain reported greater discomfort than those who stopped smoking during an 8 month treatment period. Patients who had never smoked and prior smokers reported significantly less back pain than current smokers and those who had quit smoking during their care.
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, December 2012

Wellness/Prevention: Sleep and Pain?

Sleep disorders lead to 253 million days of sick leave a year in the United States. 63.2 billion dollars are lost a year due to insomnia. A third of this is due to absence from work, while the other two thirds is due to a loss in productivity at work. 10% of the population suffers from insomnia. Sleep apnea affects 4-5% of the population.
University of Bergen, November 2012

“Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”
~ Edward Stanley

Mental Attitude: Anxious Parents?

Parents diagnosed with social anxiety disorder are more likely to exhibit less warmth and affection towards their children, criticize them more, and express doubts about their child’s ability to complete a task. This can heighten anxiety in their child, and over time, can increase the chance their child will develop an advanced anxiety disorder of their own.
Child Psychiatry and Human Development, November 2012

Health Alert: Parental Math Skills and Medication Errors

Parents with poor math skills (3rd grade level or below) are 5 times more likely to measure the wrong dose of medication for their child than parents with math skills at the 6th grade level or greater. In a study of 289 parents, 27% had math skills at 3rd grade level or below.
American Academy of Pediatrics, April 2012

Diet: Red and Processed Meat.

Meat consumption increases the risk of prostate cancer. Men who consumed the most red meat had a 30% increased risk of cancer. Processed red meat was associated with a 10% increased risk of prostate cancer with every 10 grams (about one-third of an ounce) of increased intake.
American Journal of Epidemiology, October 2009

Exercise: 5 Major Reasons.

Exercise helps control your weight preventing excess weight gain or maintaining weight loss, combats health conditions and diseases, improves mood, boosts energy, and promotes better sleep.
Mayo Clinic

Chiropractic: Spinal Degenerative Joint Disease and Pain.

There are several reasons spinal degeneration causes pain: 1. Mechanical compression of nerve by bone, ligament, or the disk. 2. Biochemical mediators of inflammation. 3. Mechanical nerve compression results in decreased blood flow and swelling, which causes lack of proper motion leading to fibrotic tissue formation.
Spine, 1989

Wellness/Prevention: Get Your Sleep!

Sleep disorders lead to 253 million days of sick leave a year in the United States. 63.2 billion dollars are lost a year due to insomnia. A third of this is due to absence from work, while the other two thirds is due to a loss in productivity at work. 10% of the population suffers from insomnia. Sleep apnea affects 4-5% of the population.
University of Bergen, November 2012

I suffer from headaches and they get severe and more recently, over the past few years, it’s gotten quite frequent. They would occur daily, sometimes. It got to the point where it was just unbearable.

The severity is significantly decreased, and the frequency is significantly decreased.

There was a time there where I was getting them every single day. I took some very intense medicine to get rid of the pain. I’m really glad not to be having to take that medicine daily because it’s pretty strong.

My life has changed because I just feel like myself when I wake up sometimes. Waking up with a headache ruins your entire day.

I think the DRX 9000 really was the key, and that’s what started the healing process. So, when you have something significantly wrong with you, I think it causes all kinds of other problems. Now that that is much better, it’s allowing me to do other things, like lose weight, that I had so much trouble doing in the past and now it is a lot easier than it used to be.

I’m not saying it’s easy but it’s certainly easier than it has been and I was able to lose 30 pounds, actually, since we finished the DRX 9000 program.

It’s a scary looking machine at first. And I think Dr. Suzan was really helpful in making me not afraid of it. I was so excited to try something different in order to treat these
headaches that I sort of was ready to jump on it, but it is an imposing machine, and I think that she really put my mind at ease and it doesn’t hurt at all. It actually felt good, and it was actually a nice relaxing 30 minutes whenever the treatments were going on.

I actually expected when I started the program that it would take several treatments before I felt anything, any kind of relief. But actually, after the first treatment, I felt instant relief. Then, it was reinforced with additional treatments, went through the program and now I would say once every two months, I come in and I have a tune up, so to speak, just to make sure that everything’s working well.

My life has changed because I just feel like myself when I wake up sometimes. Waking up with a headaches ruins your entire day. The severity is significantly decreased, and the frequency is significantly decreased. There was a time there when I was getting them every single day, and I took some really intense medicine to get rid of the pain.

I’m really glad to not to have to be take that medicine daily because it’s pretty strong. My life is just so much better because of the lack of headaches, and if that’s what it took to get the headaches to go away, then it was so worth my time and effort.

I was skeptical coming in, but the way I looked at it was, I didn’t want to take medication because to me that doesn’t seem like it’s going to fix the problem. It’s just going to cure the symptoms maybe and possibly cause other ones.

I was willing to do whatever I needed to do first, before I ever go down that road. I looked at it like, I was just going to do it. It’s probably going to be for around three months or something like that. Sure it’s going to cost me some money, but. at least. at the end I’ll
know if it did or didn’t work. I just decided to go.

Then once I started going, it seemed pretty strange to me at first. She was using methods that if you try to explain them to people, they will just think you are crazy or
that it’s like snake oil salesman type stuff. After a while of seeing it happen, it’s pretty impressive and pretty eye opening. I saw the results from it. I can’t really deny it anymore.

I think if you are serious about changing your health, especially if you are in my position, where you don’t want to take medication or something like that, which I think is probably the best way to go, anyway. Then what can it hurt you to even try it and see? Prove it to yourself whether or not it works. That’s what I did, and I’m happy with the results.

Six years ago, my doctors told me that my cholesterol was high. I gradually, over the next couple of years, had gotten to the point where I stopped eating meat and dairy and stuff like that, I’d say 90% of the time.

I didn’t have insurance for a long time, so I didn’t go back to the doctor for a while. It had been a while, and I still wasn’t eating meat or dairy or anything like that. I went back, and they told me my cholesterol was the same. It hadn’t changed at all. Because of that, they wanted to put me on medication, and I didn’t want to take it.

The next day, I talked to one of my friends. His mom knew someone who was coming to see Dr. Suzan. They gave me her information, and I called her up that minute and made an appointment, I think, for the next day or something like that. Now I’m here.

In the first month I lost, like, 20 pounds. In the 3-1/2 months that I’ve been here, it’s probably close to 40 pounds. There have been improvements in all my other numbers and stuff like that, aside from my cholesterol. It’s been pretty impressive.

She told me about all these different things that were going on in my body that I had no clue were happening, which is why I wanted to come in the first place because I figured whatever it was that I was doing wasn’t working.

So, I wanted to see somebody that knew what they were, obviously, doing. Because I figured there was something under the hood going on that wasn’t correcting the problems that I was having, and I just kind of thought that I could still fix it with diet even though it wasn’t happening.

So, she told me about stuff I had no clue. I would never have known. My doctors never would even suggested. Like, for example, my digestive system was having problems, and I had something going on called leaky gut which they never would have diagnosed me with ever. In fact, they just wrote me a prescription for cholesterol medication and stuff like that.

So, yeah, she told me about all kinds of different things, and it was like a process of correcting different things as we were going. And now I’m at the point where apparently my body is working correctly and it’s correcting all these different things itself like I started losing, I think, fat very fast because at a certain point it just started to kick in. It was just, now it realized what it was doing or something.

Migraines, not a pattern. Maybe, once a week. Maybe, two times a week. Then, there would be a period where I wouldn’t have one for a couple of weeks. So, it’s just been really difficult trying to diagnosis me.

And at the end of the day, she ended up having me taking this in-depth blood test, and it seems like maybe, we’re going to finally get some results from that. And, I want to get to the bottom of it. I just don’t want to take the new medicines that they’re prescribing now and doing research, which I’ve done that. And, there are just side effects that come from that as well.

But, I think, Suzan is the total package. She’s willing to go further. She just wants to keep searching and researching and really trying. She really wants the answer, and that’s reassuring for me because after a while you just feel like you’re spinning your wheels. So, I think she’s really good. She’s been the best for me so far.

I had been dealing with some digestive issues. Actually, I have been dealing with those issues for the better part of my life, that in addition to overall health and fitness.

My co-workers spoke highly of Dr. Starler, so i wanted to see her. Actually, for a number of reasons. I was told about her approach. I don’t know if motherly is the word that I would use to describe it, kind, gentle, nurturing.

Nutrition response testing got me on a regimen, and things have been great ever since. There’s been a drastic difference in not just my digestive issues being corrected but,
energy levels, just overall health in general. Not to mention that I now have an 8-pack that I did not have prior to seeing Dr. Starler.

My workout didn’t change. It was all a result of dietary changes. True story.

If she told me that I was good to go and perfectly healthy tomorrow, I would still continue on the path that she started me on. I can pretty much say now that I know what I want to feel like, what I want to look like, and how I want to live for the rest of my life. That’s all thanks to Dr. Starler.

I lost a little bit of weight but in a good way. I lost fat. A true story. After three weeks, I brought in a picture. I showed Dr. Starler, and her exact words were, “Wow! You’re ripped!” Again, true story. That was definitely a plus.

I have referred people and will continue to do so. In fact, my mother, who’s back east, can’t wait to get out here this winter to see Dr. Starler. Yes, absolutely, I would refer anybody that will listen.

Let me also throw in that I did not come in for this, but I just happened to mention that I’d been dealing with a nagging wrist injury for maybe, about a month and a half. She did an adjustment that took maybe a half second, and my wrist has been fine ever since. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think she was magic.