Baton Rouge Chiropractic and Nutrition

05/31/2026

Here is more on plastic- hard to be humble when you this right!

“Teenage males today have less s***m than the average 65-year-old American man.”RFK Jr. says America is facing a testosterone and fertility crisis among youn...

05/28/2026

Just wanted to share this story because not everyone has heard of the book "silent spring" by Rachel Carson

You're standing in your backyard with a three-year-old when an eagle crosses overhead. The child points, delighted. To them, this is normal. They have no idea they're witnessing a miracle.

Fifty years ago, finding a bald eagle nest in the lower 48 states meant you'd stumbled onto something rarer than a whisper. The chemical we sprayed to control mosquitoes—DDT—moved up the food chain like a ghost. Fish absorbed it. Eagles ate the fish. And when a mother eagle settled onto her clutch, her own body weight became a death sentence. The shells had thinned to tissue. They crumpled beneath her.

By 1963, we could count the breeding pairs on our fingers and toes if we had enough friends in the room. Four hundred seventeen. That number sat in field journals like an epitaph.

But then something unexpected happened. We stopped. We banned DDT. We listed the eagle under early protection laws. We didn't know if it would matter. The chemical lingered in rivers for years. The population had collapsed so far that geneticists worried about viability. Some nests sat empty for entire decades, the old territories remembered only by aging birders with fading maps.

The eagles began to return anyway. Slowly, then all at once. First the coasts. Then the rivers. Then the lakes we'd written off as too polluted, too suburban, too far gone. By the 1990s, you could find them. By the 2000s, you could count on them. Today, more than 316,000 bald eagles live across North America. That's not counting this year's hatchlings or the juveniles still learning to fish.

Walk along the Potomac now and you'll see them perched like lawn ornaments. They nest in city parks. They've been spotted above golf courses, shopping centers, highway interchanges. A friend in Minnesota counted six in one morning from her kitchen window. She didn't even need binoculars.

This kind of reversal doesn't happen often in conservation. Most stories move in the other direction—ranges shrinking, numbers falling, last individuals cataloged with the tenderness reserved for goodbyes. But eagle recovery moved like a tide coming back in. It filled the empty places. It rewrote what we thought possible.

And now your grandchildren will grow up thinking eagles were always this common. They won't carry the ache of absence. They won't remember when seeing one meant you drove hours to a wildlife refuge and felt grateful just to glimpse a distant white head. They'll assume the sky was always this full.

That assumption is the greatest gift a generation can give the next. Not the memory of what we lost, but the inability to imagine it was ever gone. [XCGGL]

05/28/2026

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05/12/2026

⃤ psyh𝚿 - changing minds one mitochondria at a time - how acquired mitochondria dysfunction sometimes called mitochondria  brownout can require different approaches to find it .

Here's a good example of how checking for mitochondria dysfunction )brown out)may take different approaches to find.

05/08/2026

He is a DABC i in Missouri - when knowing him almost 35 years 

My job as a chiropractic internist is to inform my patients so that they can live a better life through education! Helping other doctors become excellent at patient communication is part of what we teach at Pro Health Seminars. How are you educating your patients?

04/30/2026

And some people think radical is ideas are new.


In 1880, at just 21 years old, Theodore Roosevelt wrote a Harvard thesis titled The Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women before the Law, and what he argued was far ahead of his time. In an era when most women in the United States could not fully control property, income, or even their legal identity after marriage, Roosevelt openly challenged the system. He argued that women should have the same legal standing as men, especially in property ownership, rejecting the idea that marriage should automatically transfer control of a woman’s assets to her husband. Even more striking, he insisted that women should retain their birth names after marriage, directly opposing a social norm that symbolized the loss of individual identity. This wasn’t just theory. Roosevelt grew up surrounded by strong, capable women in his own family who managed finances and responsibilities effectively, and that shaped how he saw the issue. To him, inequality wasn’t natural — it was constructed. His thesis came at a time when debates about women’s education and rights were actively happening, making his position a direct response to real cultural tension, not an abstract idea. However, as he moved into politics, his stance became more complicated. While he supported women’s rights early on, he avoided pushing aggressively for suffrage during his presidency due to political pressure. It wasn’t until 1912, during his Progressive Party campaign, that he openly returned to supporting women’s voting rights at a national level. This makes his 1880 thesis stand out as one of the clearest expressions of his unfiltered beliefs, written before strategy and political compromise reshaped them.

04/26/2026

Here is a paper out of Science on how possible changes in the microbiota (the bacteria in the intestines) may alter someone's sensitivity to sugar. Promoting type two diabetes .

Disruption of intestinal ecosystem could contribute to diabetes and other health issues, scientists say

04/26/2026

Here is a interesting brain story it's been around for quite some time and had an impact on lots of people

In 1968, a young woman stood in front of a television camera wearing body paint and a bikini, giggling at her own jokes.
America laughed with her — and then made up their mind about who she was.
They were wrong.
Her name was Goldie Hawn. And while the world was busy watching the giggle, she was doing something else entirely.
She had grown up training as a ballet dancer — a discipline that has nothing to do with silliness and everything to do with precision, discipline, and reading a room. When she stepped onto Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, she brought all of that with her. The wide eyes? Calculated. The high-pitched laughter? Strategic. She played the dumb blonde so convincingly that almost nobody noticed the intelligence running the whole performance.
The ones who did notice handed her an Academy Award.
In 1970, at just 24 years old, Goldie won Best Supporting Actress for Cactus Flower. But she didn't stop there — and she didn't wait for Hollywood to decide what came next. When studios told her that nobody wanted to watch a movie about a woman finding herself, she co-produced it anyway. Private Benjamin (1980) became a box office hit and earned three Oscar nominations. The "dumb blonde" had quietly become one of the most powerful women in Hollywood — and most people still hadn't noticed.
But here's where the story takes a turn that almost nobody knows.
While her peers were chasing fame, Goldie was doing something unusual: she was studying how the brain actually works. Not casually. Seriously. She spent years reading neuroscience research, exploring positive psychology, and learning what happens inside a child's mind when they're overwhelmed, anxious, or lost.
She had been meditating since the 1970s — long before it was fashionable.
And then, in 2003, she put everything she had learned into something that would outlast every film she ever made.
She founded The Goldie Hawn Foundation and developed a program called MindUP — a curriculum built alongside leading neuroscientists to teach children how their own brains work. How to pause before reacting. How to manage fear and stress. How to build empathy for themselves and the people around them. How to be resilient in a world that doesn't always make it easy.
It wasn't a celebrity vanity project. It was peer-reviewed, evidence-based, and it worked.
Studies showed that children going through MindUP demonstrated better focus, stronger academic performance, higher empathy, and measurably more optimism. "If students take two minutes for a brain break three times a day," Goldie said, "optimism in the classroom goes up almost 80 percent."
Today, MindUP has reached over 6 million children across 48 countries.
Let that settle for a moment.
Six million children — many of whom have never seen a single Goldie Hawn film, many of whom don't even know her name — are carrying tools for emotional resilience that she spent decades building for them.
That's not a side project. That's a legacy.
Now in her late seventies, Goldie has been with Kurt Russell for over forty years, raised four children, and remains deeply selective about the work she chooses. She never waged war on the system that once tried to box her in. She never screamed at the stereotype. She just kept doing the real work underneath it — quietly, consistently, for more than fifty years.
"Anger doesn't get you anywhere," she once said. "It's not productive."
So she didn't fight the image.
She used it as cover.
And while everyone was watching the giggle — she was changing the world.

02/07/2026

I am a very big fan of our HHS secretary  and when i heard  someone was surprised to hear about wheat peptids being associated with having some problems with Brainhealth I wanted to provide this information
 Brain allergic reaction from Gliadin and schizioid affect. The connection you're touching on is a fascinating, though complex, intersection of immunology and psychiatry. Scientists have been investigating the "Gluten-Schizophrenia" link since the 1960s, and while it isn't a universal cause, there is significant evidence that for a specific subgroup of people, gliadin (a protein in gluten) can trigger a localized "allergic" or inflammatory response in the brain.

Here is a breakdown of how this "brain-allergy" dynamic relates to schizoid and schizophrenic-spectrum symptoms.

1. The "Gluten-Opioid" Theory (Gliadorphins)

When some people digest gliadin, it doesn't break down completely. Instead, it creates peptide fragments called gliadorphins (or gluteomorphins).

The Mechanism: If a person has "leaky gut" (increased intestinal permeability), these peptides can enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier.
The Effect: Once in the brain, they can bind to op**te receptors. This "morphine-like" effect is thought to contribute to the social withdrawal, "flat" affect, and "brain fog" often associated with schizoid personality traits.
2. Anti-Gliadin Antibodies (AGA) and Neuroinflammation

Research shows that people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are significantly more likely to have high levels of Anti-Gliadin IgG antibodies than the general population.

Brain Allergy: This isn't a typical "hives and swelling" allergy. It’s an immune reaction where the body views gliadin as a threat.
Cross-Reactivity: Some studies suggest these antibodies might "mistake" brain tissue for gliadin (molecular mimicry), leading to neuroinflammation. This inflammation can disrupt dopamine and glutamate signaling, which are the primary neurotransmitters involved in mood, social connection, and reality perception.
3. Impact on "Schizoid" Symptoms

The "schizoid affect"—characterized by emotional coldness, detachment, and a preference for isolation—can be exacerbated by this systemic inflammation.

The Feedback Loop: If the brain is in a constant state of low-grade "allergic" inflammation, the individual may experience anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure) and a natural instinct to withdraw from overstimulating social environments to cope with the internal "noise."
Summary Table: Gliadin vs. Brain Function

Aspect Influence of Gliadin Sensitivity
Immune Response High AGA (Anti-Gliadin Antibodies) found in ~20-30% of cases.
Neurochemistry Potential interference with op**te and dopamine receptors.
Symptom Link Linked to "negative symptoms": social withdrawal, flat affect, apathy.
Potential Relief Some clinical trials show symptom reduction on a strict Gluten-Free Diet (GFD).
Note: This is a specialized area of "Nutritional Psychiatry." If you or someone you know is exploring this, it is often helpful to test for AGA IgG/IgA and tTG (Celiac) antibodies, though some people react to gluten even with negative tests (Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity).
psychiatry # metabolic mental health


This is a shortened version of the presentation I did at the last National conference of Chiropractic internist in Omaha Nebraska. It shows some of the de...