"Cutting Off the Effect..."
If predisposed to chronic life debilitating migraines, no rational person would agree to a beheading to pre-empt the next one. But fear misplaced faith and little knowledge of how the body innately works could influence such a move on 'lesser' body parts...like a gallbladder, some adenoids or a pair of tonsils.
Healthy function is FIRST patterned in the Nerve System - then executed in the body. You can't successfully wiggle your toes, secrete a hormone or heal a paper cut without an 'innate' command first emitting from your Nerve System, and expressing itself in those parts. Likewise, for disease to manifest in the body, it too must be first patterned in your Nerve System. Treating or 'pre-treating' diseased tissue only addresses an effect after the fact. A CAUSE precedes both events, and should be addressed primarily if health is to be truly preserved.
It doesn't matter what or how many body parts you remover to avoid 'potential' illness...DIS-EASE will manifest itself someway, somehow if the cause (interference with the normal expression of Life via the Nerve System) is not addressed. It is far wiser to keep your head and get adjusted!
My family has been avoiding fluoride ever since I found this information out years ago. Water fluoridation seems to be a sacred cow in the US and we need to start to question if it really is good for us. Drinking/ingesting fluoride is not only ineffective but it is extremely toxic to our whole body health. Fluoride is the only pharmaceutical that massively distributed to every man, woman, child and infant that uses municipal tap water in their home. Chlorine makes the water safer by killing the bugs in it, and it is easily filtered out using a carbon filter. Fluoride is not there to make the water safe, it is there to medicate a whole community of people. The American Dental Association has even recommended making infant formula reconstituted with water that has low or no levels of fluoride. My question to you is how is a person without a great deal of means going to afford to buy a reverse osmosis filter for their house and have it installed to avoid the fluoride for their baby? The answer is, they can't and their baby will suffer the consequences of the one pharmaceutical fits all approach. So I actually have a solution to this problem for once. I believe the dentists in the community have the power to change this mass medication. If we can get enough dentists to listen and open their hearts and mind, I believe we can petition the water board to stop the water fluoridation in St. Louis and everywhere else in this country. I've read many books and articles on this topic but this video below is very well done and I believe this may be the key to opening the eyes of the dental community. Also the pictures below are picture of what dental fluorosis looks like. I've got it, my kids don't. But i grew up drinking water right out of the tap and I am doing my best to keep my kids with as low a dose as possible. Dental fluorosis is a signal of TOXIC levels of exposure of fluoride, our teeth are just the window and show the evidence but our bones, organs, and nervous system has also been exposed. Don't let me convince you, do your own research and protect your family.
Informational Video on Water Fluoridation
Fluoride Action Network is another great resource.
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Dr. Bagley treats victims of serious accident and is featured in Your Legal Guide, which offers info on defense for DWI and settlements from a car wreck
This eye opening show is exactly what I am trying to fight against with my own habits and for my family. This program does an eloquent explanation on how sugar effects us all and on subsequent videos goes a little further. Please watch and have all of your family watch too.
The Upper Cervical Blog: More Energy for Healing?: How to Get More Energy for Healing, Digestion, and Thinking by Dr. Brandon Harshe “Better than 90% of the brain’s output is directed towards maintaining your body in its gravitational field. Therefore, the less energy one spends on one’s posture, the more energy is available for healing, digestion and thinking.” -Roger Sperry, 1981 Nobel Prize winner for brain research...
This is a great blog post about what is done at Vital Force Clinic in St. Louis. If you need a St. Louis Chiropractor check out our website.
Stay warm out there,
Dr. B
Artificial Sweeteners like Splenda use deceptive advertising and holes in FDA policies to deceive the public. Did you know consuming artificial sweeteners can cause distortions in your biochemistry, and if you drink diet soda in an attempt to lose weight, they won't help you. Instead, most studies looking at this show very clearly that diet soft drinks actually double your obesity risk by stimulating your appetite, increasing carbohydrate cravings, and stimulating fat storage!
More Deception:
Splenda is not a zero calorie product. In every little yellow death pouch (yes I’m dramatic) there are actually 4 calories. Sucralose (Splenda) is about 600 times sweeter than sugar, so if it was sold by itself we would only need a few grains to sweeten our coffee. So they added a bulking/diluting agent made of a type of SUGAR! So each packet really contains 4 calories which may not seem like a big deal if you are using one packet, but I know of plenty of diabetics that are using 10 or more packets a day, and that can have a dramatic effect on blood sugar levels.
What is it doing to our insides?
The animal study, published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, found that Splenda:
Reduced good intestinal bacteria by 50%, Increase pH levels and effected a glycoprtein that could have health effects especially people on certain medications. There are no long-term health studies to evaluate the health effects of chronic exposure to splenda (sucralose) which means your family could be the guinea pigs.
What other symptoms could be associated with the use of this drug?
The studies did show a strong association with migraine headaches in humans. In animals there were decreased red blood cells, increased male infertility, brain lesions (very high doses), Spontaneous abortions in nearly half the rabbit population given sucralose, compared to zero aborted ptregnancies in the control group, and a 23% death rate in rabbits vs a 6% death rate in the control group.
I’m convinced that splenda is a poison and is not as great as the corporations want you to believe. Do your own research and make your own decisions… its in a lot of things you may have once thought were healthy (breads, sugar chewing gum, children’s OTC medications, health drinks like 5 hour energy, supplements like Airborne and many more). If you want to avoid this for your family make sure to read the labels for Sucralose and/or Splenda. Other artificial sweeteners I also avoid are Aspertame (NutraSweet, Equal) and Saccharine (Sweet’N Low).
Yours in Health,
Dr. B
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Vital Force Clinic invites you to support The Young Women's Breast Cancer Program at Rosemary Grove's Kirkwood location. Rosemary Grove is located at 101 A Argonne in downtown Kirkwood across from the train station.
This fundraiser will be held on Sunday, June 12th from 10am-6pm. You will get 20% of all art, gifts, jewelry, purses, skincare, make-up and health & wellness products! The 20% that you save will be donated to YWBC.
Special events will be taking place from 11am-1pm. You can enjoy mini anti-aging facials, 3 minute chair massages, Chiropractic posture checks, advice and tips from a cancer exercise specialist and enter a drawing to win a "Fab Facebook Photo Event"
We live complex and busy lives. Many of us wonder how we can get just a few more hours out of the day. The problem is to do that we sacrifice the easiest way to stay optimally healthy. Sleep deprivation is a key factor in many health problems including obesity. There are several ways to help you sleep better but insomnia can be an issue with many people. Insomnia is defined as the inability to fall asleep or to remain asleep long enough to feel rested, especially when this is a problem that continues over time. Whether it is by choice or because of insomnia, sleep deprivation does cause processes in the body become less optimum.
Why would less sleep cause us to get fat? Sleep-deprived individuals tend to eat more sweet and starchy foods. Researchers suspect the cravings stem from the brain being fueled by glucose (blood sugar) so our brain is searching for carbs. There is also a hormone called leptin which tells your brain that there is no need for more food. Leptin is reduced when we have sleep deprivation. So it makes sense that less sleep could cause someone to gain weight.
In a great FREE health lecture I will be giving on Saturday, April 9th at 11AM, we will be going over theWHY of sleep problems, simple solutions, and the role of your nervous system. I invite you all to come out and attend this breakthrough health talk.
When: Saturday, April 9th at 11:00 AM
Where: Rosemary Grove 101 West Argonne Drive Directly across from the Kirkwood Train Station with Lisa’s Photography.
RSVP: Please RSVP for yourself and guests to Michellevitalforce@gmail.com or call Michelle at 314-596-4070
Looking forward to seeing you there! Dr. Bagley
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Dear friend,
I bet you have wondered this yourself. “What do doctors do…” Do they just take a ‘magic’ drug that they never told us about? Let’s face it, as a society we are ‘hooked’ on drugs, both the illegal and the legal ones. But, most people don’t know that it’s actually the legal ones that kill many times more people than the illegal ones. A gut-wrenching statistic I just read was that 1 in 4 children are taking a prescription medicine on a regular basis.
Let me tell you a little story.
17 years ago, I was in middle school at Parkway West when I started having serious feelings of depression and anxiety, terrible headaches, and all over body pain. I was scared. Talking to school counselors helped, but there was still something very wrong. I was afraid to tell my parents how I felt. Much of the time I felt alone. I explored the unfortunate route of prescription drugs. One would make me feel loopy or the next would make me feel wiped out but they kept me alive. The pain and symptoms got worse in high school. I honestly thought that everyone lived with pain and so I just accepted the problems.
Then, 6 years ago a friend introduced me to a man that changed my life forever, an Upper Cervical Chiropractor. That didn’t mean much to me at first but I knew he was different. He didn’t pop, bend or crack my neck. He gently and painlessly moved a bone in my upper neck. That week, my headaches were less severe and then gone. Soon after, most of the body pain that had plagued me for years disappeared. Then, there was the biggest change that I never expected. A few months into care I started feeling happier, less anxious, and more positive. The veil of depression and anxiety that had ruled my life for 11 years was lifted. I felt like a new person. Because of the great results, I decided to become an upper cervical chiropractor so I could help others.
The ‘quick fix’ mentality of ‘just take a pill’ (not a true fix at all) is still common, but the good news is that things are changing. People are getting smarter. I recently read in USA Today that the pharmaceutical industry is now rethinking their strategy, because the medical profession and prescription drugs usually only deal with symptoms, and not the cause of sick-ness. Chiropractors have dealt with a cause for 116 years, and have never wavered. And guess what! Now there are more visits to ‘alternative’ health care providers than ‘traditional’ ones.
6 years ago chiropractic saved me from pain and depression, and now I do my best to help others with the same problem, as well as headaches, migraines, chronic pain, neck pain, shoulder/arm pain, whiplash, backaches, ear infections, asthma, bedwetting, IBS, insomnia, allergies, numbness in limbs, ADD/ADHD, and arthritis just to name a few.
Oh, about the photo. That’s me on the left with my husband, Jason and my twin girls Addie and Lexi at my sisters wedding. I’ve had the twins adjusted since birth and they are very healthy kids. Obviously, they aren’t perfect but are a lot of fun. Keeping them well adjusted is going to keep them from having the health problems I went through as a child.
So, what is it that I and doctors that I know do when they feel rotten? We get checked to see if we need a chiropractic adjustment. When my body is balanced, it responds by healing itself, and the results are wonderful. It’s as simple as that!
Here’s what some of my patients had to say:
“When I came in I was limping from a broken hip and my legs were different lengths. Since getting adjusted, I can walk almost perfectly and I feel generally better. I am so thankful for Dr. Bagley.” - (Marilyn Davis- Ballwin)
“The gentle adjustment that Dr. B uses has made my neck and back pain go away and stay away for the majority of the last 3 years!”- (Mariann Wedel-Webster Groves)
“I went from taking 5-6 pain pills a day to maybe 1 or 2 a week in a very short time. This care has changed my life.” (Angela P- Brentwood)
You should know that I don’t heal anyone of anything. What I do is perform a specific upper cervical adjustment to remove nerve interference, and the body responds by healing itself. We get tremendous results.
Forty-eight million Americans no longer have health insurance, and those who do have found that their benefits are reduced. That’s where chiropractic comes in. Many people find that they actually save money on their health care expenses by seeing a chiropractor. Another way to save…published, peer-reviewed research indicates that the immune system may be enhanced by chiropractic adjustments. The immune system is the system that helps the body fight colds, the flu, and many other sicknesses. Although all people respond differently to care, maybe you won’t be running off to the medical doctor as much once you start chiropractic. This is especially important if you are self-employed.
You Benefit from an Amazing Offer. It shouldn’t cost you an arm and a leg to correct your health. Look, you are going to write a check to someone for your health care. Why not write one for a lesser a-mount for chiropractic? When you bring in this article, you will receive my new patient exam for just $27. That’s with x-rays, paraspinal thermal imaging….the whole ball of wax. But, please call right away because this offer expires on Friday, February 18th 2011 and I don’t want you to miss out (this special deal, by law, cannot be used for Medicare and Medicaid patients but we would still love to meet you). By the way, further care is very affordable and you’ll be happy to know that I have family care plans, senior discounts, and student discounts. You see I’m not trying to seduce you to come see me with this low start up fee, then to only make it up with high fees after that. Further care is very important to consider when making your choice of doctor.
Great care at a great fee…Please, I hope that there’s no misunderstanding about quality of care just because I have a lower exam fee. You’ll get great care at a great fee. My qualifications: I’m a graduate of SLU and Logan. I am board certified and licensed in the state of Missouri. I’ve been entrusted to take care of families from the tiny babies to the great-grandparents. I just have that low fee to help more people who need care.
My office is both friendly and warm and we try our best to make you feel at home. We have a wonderful service, at an exceptional fee. You will just love Michelle at the front desk when you call (ask her about her chiropractic experience). We are Vital Force Upper Cervical Clinic at 10028 Manchester Road (southwest corner at Sappington). Our phone number is (314) 596 – 4070. Call today for an appointment. We can help you.
Thank you.
- Beth Bagley, D.C.
P.S. When accompanied by the first, the second family member/friend will receive this same exam for only $10.