Donaldson Chiropractic

07/27/2026

The office will be closed Thursday and Friday. Dr. Donaldson will be selling guitars at the Yellow Pine Harmonica Festival.

07/23/2026

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07/22/2026

Diabetic Neuropathy

Benfotiamine
Inositol
Alpha Lipoic Acid

These might be worth looking at to help with diabetic neuropathy.

07/21/2026

Our Secret Weapon

Your thoughts influence your health directly. Fear and stress affect your adrenal glands. Your adrenal glands work with your autonomic nervous system and the brain. This is called you HPA Axis or your Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis.

How you manage your thinking and you thought pattern changes your hormones and can even change and influence the bacteria in you gut.

This in turn can snowball into a cascading pattern of fear, depression, and anxiety.

There are all kinds medicines, herbs, and vitamins that you can take to help. These are important but we need to get to the root of the problem.

Our secret weapon is faith in God. When we trust that he will guide and help us we find peace. It is not a matter of trying harder to trust God. It is a matter of letting go and let God direct us. After all Who knows you better the the One that created you. If He created you, He can heal you.

07/16/2026

The vitamin industry was taken over by the pharmaceutical companies years ago.

I often ask my patients, when do drug companies make money?
The answer is, when you are sick. They are not promoters of wellness. They nurture sickness.

So do drug companies make vitamins that will help keep you from taking drugs?

Would drug companies potentially make vitamins that make you need drugs?

This may sound crazy but consider this. The last time a checked, calcium carbonate was the number one selling calcium in the United States. Calcium carbonate is what Tums is made out of. It is inorganic. So it is basically rocks. It contains calcium, just not in a form that actually comes from a food source. It neutralizes your stomach acid (now your food can't digest) and accumulates in the body in unnatural ways, one of which is the production of kidney stones.

This is one of the biggest reasons that I recommend Standard Process. They produce whole food vitamins. God gave us food. We messed that up, then we take chemicals to treat our nutritional deficiencies.

07/09/2026

Blood Sugar Control Products

07/09/2026

Our Biggest Battle

Our biggest health battle is likely sugar. Sugar releases insulin which is pro-inflammatory. Inflammation is at the core of cardio-vascular disease.

I tell patients that God created their bodies and placed a self healing mechanism in every cell of your body. You have only two things that you have to do:

1. Get rid of the bad.
2. Give your body what it needs.

In the case of blood sugar, likely the most important thing we can do is the first one. Quit consuming sugar and refined carbohydrates.

There are multiple options for helping normalize blood sugar levels.

Chromium Complex (Standard Process) - This helps with people dealing with high or low blood sugar levels. It contains GTF (glucose tolerance factor) which increases the effectiveness of insulin. It may decrease cholesterol and calcium build up in the blood vessels.

Berberine (Mediherb) - This is considered a good alternative to many of the diabetes drugs that are popular right now but it does not have their serious side effects. I suggest you go to YouTube and watch videos by Dr. Berg that explain the benefits of Berberine.

Gymnema (Mediherb) - This herb helps normalize blood sugar levels and decreases craving for sugar. It will actually make sugar taste bad if you suck on a tablet. That's one way to quit eating sugar.

Metabol Complex (Mediherb) This is one of the big hitters of the herbal formulas that help control blood sugar levels. It contains the following:

-Fenugreek Seed
-Black Cumin Seed
-Bitter Melon
-Cinnamon

This is a good choice if you don't want to go the standard medical route.

Diaplex (Standard Process) - This is a formula that contains six Standard Process products together to help regulate blood sugar. These are basic nutrient that your body requires.

There are many good options if you want to normalize blood sugar. The first should be quit consuming refined foods and sugar.

07/03/2026

Osteoporosis: Seriously think about what you are doing.

Sometimes I think I'm crazy then I go back and review things and realize, no the world is crazy.

The standard treatment for osteoporosis in our country is a class of drug called a bisphosphonate. These drugs kill your own bone cells that are helping take down old bone so that it can be replaced with new bone. Sounds crazy but it is true. I don't even know how they thought this one up.

I believe that a lot of medicine is driven by Fear, Ignorance, Money, and Arrogance.

Here is how it starts.

You get a bone density test. Keep in mind that bone density and bone strength are not completely the same thing.

The test indicates that your bone density is low - oh no? There is the fear.

The doctor tells you that you need to go on this drug with a really long name that you have no idea how it works. There is the ignorance.

You start taking the drug -- Money -- which potentially causes other serious health issue -- Money. Now you are off to the races.

Don't look anywhere else for other answers because other types of doctor are second class and ignorant -- Arrogance.

This is what is going on. Osteoclasts are living bone cells that remove old bone constantly so that new bone can be replaced by osteoblast (cells that lay down new bone). The bisphosphonate drugs kill the osteoclasts so no old bone is removed. This results in increased bone density. BUT...now your old bone is not being replace with new bone (a process called remodeling) and your bones will start to get weak and may fracture as a result.

Wait!!! I thought that's what we were trying to prevent. Exactly. What the heck?

In addition these drugs can cause avascular necrosis of the jaw. That means you jaw bone dies. Not good.

If fact there were a lot of class action lawsuits going on for atypical fracture of the femur (it breaks in the shaft rather than the neck) and avascular necrosis of the jaw.

I have even heard in advertisements that these drugs kill the cells that are attacking your bones. No it kills your bone cells that are replacing the bone. God put them there.

Here is a likely incomplete list of bisphonsphonate drugs:
Aometa
Allasta
Reclast
Fosamax
Binosto
Voniva
Actonel
Atelvia
Aredia

If you are on one of these you might want to watch this video and ask some questions.

In this video, we take a deep dive into the potential dangers of bi...

07/02/2026

How did we get here?

Follow this thought:

Scientist 1: I hear carrots are good for you.

Scientist 2: Yes, me too.

Scientist 1: I hate eating carrots but I want the health benefits. I wonder what the healthy part (active ingredient) of the carrot is.

Scientist 2: I've been told it is Beta Carotene. Plus I've heard of Beta Carotene somewhere, I don't know where but I've heard about it.

Scientist 1: Hey we should take all the Beta Carotene out of 100 carrots, throw the rest away, put it in a pill and just take one a year and that would keep us healthy.

Scientist 2: Yeah that would cost too much. I wonder if there would be a cheaper way to get 100 carrots worth of Beta Carotene.

Scientist 1: Let ask Scientist 3 down the hall. He is in research and development, he might have a good idea.

Scientist 3: Yes I know how to make something with a similar molecular structure as Beta Carotene out of petroleum. It looks similar on the chalkboard.

Scientists 1 and 2: Great let's make a vitamin.

This is how we got to the point where we are taking synthetic vitamins made from chemicals.

-Isolate
-Fractionate
-Separate
-Concentrate

God put nutrients in whole foods that synergistically work together to strengthen and heal our bodies.

This is why I am an advocate for whole food vitamins.

Standard Process has been producing whole food vitamins for about 100 years without pesticides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers. They have no rival in the industry. In fact that invite doctor that practice natural medicine to come to their 1,000 acre farm to visit. They take them to the fields and through there massive processing plant to show how they produce this superior product.

Other companies may say that they have whole food products but grow them using chemical in the soil and on the plants. They also make heat them to speed up the processing or use damaging solvent to extract certain ingredients.

Eat what God gave you in the first place.